Two years ago the Boston Bruins rode a wave of good fortune, well-timed goals, and brilliant defense to their first Stanley Cup Finals victory in 39 years.

Their most important/best/publicly insane player was Tim Thomas, a then 36-year-old goalie who finished the regular season with the best save percentage (93.8%) and goals against average (2.00) in the league. He was an NHL All-Star, taking home the second Vezina Trophy of his career (of the nine goalies to win that award twice, only Charlie Hodge hasn’t been inducted into the Hall of Fame) and was awarded the Conn Smythe trophy for being the Most Valuable Player in the playoffs.

This season the Bruins are driven by those same Stanley Cup championship expectations and aspirations, except Thomas, who’s currently somewhere participating innon-hockey related activity in an isolated Colorado log cabin, will not be joining them. (Thomas was suspended by the team for sitting out the year.)

So why are the Bruins so confident in raising another Stanley Cup trophy despite their former savior being unavailable?

Insert Tuukka Rask, the one-time prodigious goaltender who Boston acquired in exchange for Andrew Raycroft seven years ago. It was an interesting deal at the time, as the Bruins decided to part ways with their goalie who was named Rookie of the Year just three seasons prior.

Raycroft was never the same after the lockout, and Boston’s decision to sell his stock before it could sink any lower was a wise one. In his first season as Toronto’s starting goalie, Raycroft allowed 208 goals, the most in


the NHL.

The Bruins acquired Rask to be their goalie of the future, and with Thomas finally out of the picture, that future has arrived. Rask is 25 years old (13 years younger than Thomas) and until now has never before entered an NHL season as the undisputed starter in net.

Widely regarded as the best backup goaltender in the league last season, the 6’3” Rask was selected with the 21st overall pick in 2005. He was 18 years old. During the 2009-10 season, while filling in for an injured Thomas, he dominated would-be scorers, leading the league in save percentage and goals against average. He recorded five shutouts, the seventh most in the league. And played 13 games in the postseason, going 7-6 with a 91.2% save percentage andAfrica’s dirty diesel scandal

Refineries in Europe and the U.S. Gulf are using lax standards to sell poison to the continent

DIESEL fumes in Accra, Ghana, contain five times more particulate matter (PM) than diesel fumes in London.

In Lagos, Nigeria, the cars belch out diesel that has 13 times more particles than in London.

This particulate matter comes from several sources, but dirty diesel is by far the main contributor.

These are the findings from a 160page report based on three years of research into the African fuel trade by Swiss corporate watchdog Public Eye (formerly the Berne Declaration).

The report entitled “Dirty Diesel” was released last week and argues that European and U.S. firms, but especially Swiss firms, are abusing lax regulations in African countries to dump fuel with high sulphur contents


who said adopting ultra-low sulphur fuels would save governments money in dramatically lowering illnesses and deaths from urban air pollution.

With car ownership rapidly increasing in Africa, the researchers predict that Africa will have three times as many deaths from vehicle-related air pollution as the U.S., Europe, and Japan combined by 2030.

Public Eye calls on African governments to ban all dirty fuels and government of export hubs for “African quality” fuels in Amsterdam, Antwerp and the U.S. Gulf to prohibit such exports.

Public Eye makes it clear that none of the dirty fuel suppliers to Africa were exceeding legal limits, but stressed that governments would get what they allow, and with that all the respiratory diseases associated with high particulate counts in the air.

The companies simply take advantage of weakfuel standards in Africa to produce, deliver and sell low-quality fuel — what the industry calls “African Quality” — in order to increase profits.

If African countries were to adopt European fuel standards (10 ppm) for sulphur in diesel, they would immediately cut by 50% the traffic-related air pollution from particulate matter.

This adds up to preventing 25 000 premature deaths in 2030 and almost 100 000 premature deaths in 2050, the report states, adding such a move would also reduce car maintenance costs and allow people to spend their budgets on other pressing issues.

PHOTO: ALWYN VILJOEN

Africa’s governments need to set higher standards to prevent dirty diesel and petrol from killing its citizens, says a Swiss corporate watchdog.


much they can spend. Spending is only constrained by legislation and legislative policy.

Right. It is the government as the representative of the people — representatives are agents of the people they represent— that authorizes expenditure through the process set forth in the Constitution and laws.

The Treasury and Fed are agencies of the executive branch, which carries out the will of the people expressed through its political agents, but directing its agencies to do the bidding of these agents by taking action on the appropriations. The various agency do this by placing orders that move private resources to public use, contracting for payment in the currency. Then Tsy directs the Fed to credit the appropriate bank accounts.

Due to the internal structure of the US govt. the Treasury has tois useful but can make one lose sight of the wider picture if one's not careful. Half the economics profession has been so confused by the institutional smoke and mirrors that they have become incapable of uttering rational statements.

JKH managed to write 15 million words on the subject without once acknowledging that fed notes are government obligations. Perhaps next time he will write 15 million words on the intricate details of the Fed's internal cash and capital management proceedures with an equally large blind spot right in the middle of his vision.

Stop the squabbling. I think I was the one who mentioned it somewhere that Ellen Brown in her book had the idea that she took from elsewhere. In her book, page 372, she says

Quote:In the 1980s, a


also the currency issuer. Federal reserve notes are clearly defined as liabilities of the fed and obligations of the US government."

To argue against myself (actually JKH's distinction between Fed as currency issuer and Treasury as currency user) whose signature is on the federal reserve notes (FRN)? There is a signature and under it the title reads, wait for it, "Secretary of the Treasury"! Emblazoned across the top of the FRN is "The United States of America."

And whose picture is on the bills, mostly US presidents other than Alexander Hamilton, Tsy sec., and Ben Franklin, who never got to serve in high federal office other than a stint as an ambassador, but is considered to be a founding father and was called "The First American" due to his role(after netting) and meet window demand for cash.

Actually, the Tsy spends almost nothing, just the expenses of the Dept of the Tsy. It's the other agencies that spend iaw appropriations and presidential direction through the executive branch chain of command. The bills go to Tsy, which directs the Fed to pay them from its Fed account.

Govt is as the people agent is doing everything in the name of the people of the USA, and iaw the actions of the people's agents, the elected officials. Internally in govt. various agencies cooperation in getting the job done. In the end, all action is undertaken by the US govt in the people's name and on the people's behalf. That's what a liberal democracy is a about.

We the People of the United


States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[note 1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The rest of the Constitution establishes the govt as people's agent and fundamental law of the land — the rule of law as the social compact of the US and how it will be administered.

The Chairman of the House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, Consumer Affairs and Coinage Subcommittee in the 1980's that Ellen mentions was Frank Anunzio and I am pursuaded that Al D'Amato may well have been aware of the idea, and that idea may well have been at playMorphologic and functional determinants of primordial and primary follicles in the monkey ovary.
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There are two kinds of people around, the ones who refer to bamboo as a plant and the ones who refer to it as a tree. Well, bamboo, which is famously known for its elongated hollow stems, is a common sight in the households. People even go on to use it for building fences around their house.

However, despite its common and popular usage, many are still confused about the category in which bamboo falls. To make things clear below is an insight on the flux if bamboo is a tree or grass.

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Is Bamboo A Tree Or Grass?

With its impeccable height of up to 100 ft., bamboo is often mistaken as a tree. At times, some species of bamboo are even brought into the market as bamboodoesn’t know the cause of the fire at this time. He noted that fuel and oil was stored in the back of the business where the fire began.

The cause of a fire that ravaged Nelson’s Speed Shop in the early morning hours of Friday remains unknown. About 75 firefighters from 11 departments began clearing the scene at 11:30 a.m. Friday — 10 hours after the fire was reported at 1:30 a.m. The fire started in the back of the business on the west side of the building where the warehouse is located on M-91 just north of Greenville.

In mid-December, an English teacher at Greenville High School received a letter that gave her a humble and excited feeling. The letter was from State Superintendent Mike Flanagan, notifying Elizabeth Nelson


on the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir for the first time, with representatives of the two organizations arguing that "San Francisco received [Hetch Hetchy's] benefits long ago, but the American people have not."

A 2019 study commissioned by Restore Hetch Hetchy argued that draining the reservoir and equipping the valley with a tourism infrastructure comparable to that of Yosemite Valley (which receives around 100 times as many visitors annually than Hetch Hetchy's 44,000) could result in a "recreational value" of up to $178 million per year, or possibly an overall economic value of up to $100 billion.

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Lungren Feinstein Conflict
Representative Dan Lungren (R-Gold River) has decided to legally find a way to restore Hetch Hetchy. He is challenging the law requiring that no more water be imported than requiredin all thirty-eight guns.  Each
of the boats of the river-fleet defence had its bows shod with iron
and its engines protected with cotton.  This was also the case with
the two sea-going steamers belonging to the State.  Of this flotilla
the most powerful was the iron-clad _Louisiana_, whose armor was
found strong enough to turn an 11-inch shell at short range, and,
as her armament consisted of two 7-inch rifles, three 9-inch shell
guns, four 18-inch shell guns, and seven 6-inch rifles, she might
have proved a formidable foe had her engines been equal to their
work.

At the Plaquemine Bend, twenty miles above the head of the passes
and ninety below New Orleans, the engineers of the United States
had constructed two permanent fortifications, designed to defend
the entrance of the river against the foreign enemies


all were amused at the mad antics of the pageant-loving <DW64>s,
crowding and capering on the levee as plantation after plantation
was passed.  So closely had the secret been kept that, until the
transports got under way from Ship Island for the purpose, probably
not more than three or four officers, if so many, of all the force
really knew its destination.  Nor was it until the two generals
met at New Orleans that Butler learned that Banks was to relieve
him.

On the 15th of December Banks took the command of the Department
of the Gulf, although the formal orders were not issued until the
17th.  The officers of the department, as well as of the personal
staff of General Butler, were relieved from duty and permitted to
accompany him to the North.  The newtaking it in the
manner I propose, Vicksburg and Port Hudson would be a cipher to
the rebels.  It would be a campaign that 100,000 men could not so
easily fight, and so successfully.  It is an operation to which
the taking of Galveston Island is a cipher and the capture of the
Mobile Bay forts a nonentity."

With these views Banks was himself in accord, yet not in their
entirety.  The pressure of time led him to desire to avoid divergences
into the Teche country.  If it were possible, he wished to gain
the Atchafalaya by some route at once speedier and more direct.
While the explorations were in progress to discover such a route,
Weitzel once more took occasion to urge his original plan.  On the
15th of February, he wrote to Augur,


in time to extinguish the flames that Vincent's
men had lighted to destroy it.  After seizing the bridge at Oak
Lawn, Barrett galloped down the left bank of the Teche and seized
the bridge a mile or two below, by which the same small plantation
is reached from the eastward; probably by the shell road that Grover
had been told to take, and at which he had tried to land.  Barrett
was in time to save the bridge from Vincent, and to hold the
advantage thus gained Dwight soon sent Holcomb with the 1st Louisiana,
131st New York, 6th New York, 22d Maine, and Closson's battery.

Meanwhile, the division being entirely without wagons, save a few
that were loaded with the reserve ammunition, still another wait
took place while the men's haversacks were being filled with hard
breadand the enemy in the wood, Warner's men
instantly replied to the volleys of cannon and small-arms that
greeted their appearance and pushed on, firing as they went.  More
fortunate than their comrades in the direction and the moment of
their attack, they pressed back Clack, drove off Cornay's guns,
and took two of his caissons, a limber, and a color presented to
his battery by the ladies of Franklin.  Nearly 60 prisoners at the
same time fell into their hands.  They were still advancing when
Grover's orders recalled them to the restored line of battle of
the brigade.

As Birge's right retired, Dwight deployed in two lines, the 6th
New York and the 91st New York in front, the 22d Maine, 1st Louisiana,
and 131st New York in support, and advancing against Taylor's left
flank and overlapping


it in its turn pushed it back into and beyond
the woods.  In this movement Dwight took 70 prisoners.  The resistance
he encountered was feeble compared with the vigor with which Birge
had been met and turned back, for in that effort the Confederate
line of battle had practically gained its main object and had now
only to extricate itself and make good its own withdrawal.

Birge, at the same time that he drew back the 13th Connecticut,
once more moved forward his three other regiments and re-formed
the brigade in two lines on Dwight's left.

Kimball, whose brigade was in two lines in reserve, brought up the
12th Maine to the support of the 13th Connecticut.

This done, Grover advanced the whole division through the woods to
the open fields on their farther or western verge, andnumbers
--hardly more than it had suffered in the skirmishes of the day
before.  Grover had eighteen pieces of artillery, of which but four
were in action; Taylor also had four guns of which he made good
use, and these, toward the close of the battle, were reinforced by
the five heavy guns of the _Diana_, of which, however, it is probable
that but one, or at most two, could be brought to bear.

The field of battle was so contracted that Taylor's strength sufficed
to occupy its front, while Grover was hindered or prevented from
deploying a force large enough to outflank and crush his antagonist
at a blow.

Viewed from a Confederate standpoint, the issue forms an instructive
example of the great results that may be achieved by a right use
of small forces.  If, on the


tributaries.  Of
this Banks had no doubt whatever.  To open communication with Grant
and to dispose of Taylor had been the chief ends that Banks had
proposed to himself in setting out on the campaign.  These ends he
now held almost in his hand.  But on the 21st of April an event
occurred that, slight as was its apparent importance, was destined,
in the train of consequences, vitally to affect the operations of
the Army of the Gulf.

This was the arrival at headquarters of Lieutenant Joseph T. Tenney,
one of Dudley's aides-de-camp, who had been sent by Augur to find
Banks, wherever he might be.  With him Tenney brought important
despatches from Grant and Farragut.  What the contents were and
what came of them will be related in the next chapter.

From Opelousas Bean,as it was in the effort to guard the long train that
stretched for eight miles over the prairies, with a motley band of
5,000 <DW64>s, 2,000 horses, and 1,500 beeves for a cumbrous
accompaniment.  With the possible exception of the herd that set
out to follow Sherman's march through Georgia, this was perhaps
the most curious column ever put in motion since that which defiled
after Noah into the ark.

On the 21st of May, Chickering halted near Breaux Bridge; on the
22d, above Saint Martinville; on the 23d, above New Iberia; on
the 24th, at Jeannerette.  On the following afternoon the column
had halted five miles beyond Franklin, when a small force of the
enemy, supposed to be part of Green's command or of Fournet's
battalion, fell upon the rear-guard and a few shots were exchanged,
with


in safety
at Brashear.

Banks had sent his despatches of the 13th of May to Grant by the
hands of Dwight, with instructions to lay the whole case before
Grant and to urge the view held by Banks with regard to the
co-operation of the two armies.  Dwight proceeded to Grand Gulf by
steamboat, and thence riding forward, overtook Grant just in time
to witness the battle of Champion's Hill on the 16th of May.  That
night he sent a despatch by way of Grand Gulf, promising to secure
the desired co-operation, but urging Banks not to wait for it.
The message arrived at headquarters at Simmes's plantation on the
evening of the 17th, and was at once sent on to Brashear to be
telegraphed to the commanding general at New Orleans.  This assurance
sent by Dwight reallyindicated by the orders for the
following day.  By at least one of those present any immediate
movement in the nature of an assault was objected to because of
the great distance that still separated the lines of investment
from the Confederate earthworks; it was urged that the troops would
have to move to the attack over ground the precise character of
which was as yet unknown to them or to their commanders, although
it was known to be broken and naturally difficult and to be obstructed
by felled timber.  The general opinion was, however, that prompt
and decisive action was demanded in view of the unusual and precarious
nature of the campaigns on which the two armies of Grant and Banks
were now embarked, the uncertainty as to what Johnston might do,
and the certainty that a


way across the rivulet
known as Little Sandy Creek, and, working gradually forward, began
to fortify with logs the hill on the right, afterward known as Fort
Babcock, in honor of the Lieutenant-Colonel of the 75th New York.

To support Weitzel's movement, Grover sent the 159th New York,
Lieutenant-Colonel Burt, and the 25th Connecticut by a wide detour
to the right to make their way in on Paine's left.  Taking advantage
of the protection afforded by the ravine, at the bottom of which
ran or rather trickled Sandy Creek, these regiments, after the most
difficult and exhausting scramble through the brush and over the
fallen timber, came to the base of a steep bluff, near the position
afterward occupied by siege battery No. 6.  This, although the works
directly opposite were as yet light, was naturally one ofmusketry from the rifle-pits
on the detached bluff; at the same moment the field guns opened
with shell and shrapnel from the ridge behind, and as the men
struggled on through the creek and up the farther bank they became
exposed to the enfilade fire of the columbiads.  When, in mounting
the narrow gorge that led up the hill, the head of the column,
necessarily shattered as it was by this concentrated fire, had
gained a point within about two hundred yards of the crest, suddenly
every gun opened on them with canister.  This was more than any
man could stand.  Bassett's men gave back in disorder on their
supports, then in the act of crossing the creek, and the whole
column retired in confusion to its position near the sugar-house
on the north bank.  Here


he had
received his well-earned commission as brigadier-general.  He was
taken to New Orleans, and there nine days later, at the Hotel de
Dieu Hospital, after vain efforts to save the limb, the surgeons
performed amputation of the thigh.  A few days after the surrender,
in order to avoid the increasing dangers of the climate, Paine was
sent to his home in Wisconsin on the captured steamer _Starlight_,
the first boat that ascended the river.  Thus the Nineteenth Corps
lost one of its bravest and most promising commanders, one who had
earned the affection of his men, not less through respect for his
character than by his unfailing sympathy and care in all situations,
and who was commended to the confidence and esteem of his associates
and superiors by talent and devotion of the first order joinedsoldiers, yet so unfamiliar to
all Americans as to draw many a smile, even in that grim moment,
from those who heard it.

To the cannonade that preceded the assault and announced it to the
enemy must be attributed not only the failure but a great part of
the loss.  The wearied Confederates were asleep behind the breastworks
when the roar of the Union artillery broke the stillness of the
morning, and gave them time to make ready.  Such was their extremity
that in Grover's front they burned their last caps in repelling
the final assault, and, for the time, were able to replenish only
from the pouches of the fallen.

Under cover of night all the wounded that were able to walk or
crawl made their way to places of safety in the rear; while,
disregarding the incessant


by the guard and lost one man
killed and two wounded.  In their turn they fired upon the steamboats,
and wounded two of the crew.  Three hours later the gunboat _Winona_,
Captain Weaver, came down from Baton Rouge, and, shelling the enemy,
hastened their departure.  In the tension of greater events, little
notice was taken at the moment of this incident; yet it was not
long before it was discovered that the raiders were the advance
guard of the little army with which Taylor was about to invade La
Fourche, intent upon the bold design of raising the siege of Port
Hudson by blockading the river and threatening New Orleans.

Thus Banks was brought face to face with the condition described
in his letter of the 4th of June to Halleck:

"The course to be pursued here As soon as the Confederates appeared before
Donaldsonville, Woolsey was notified, and couriers were sent up and
down the river to summon the _Winona_ and the _Kineo_.

Green brought to the attack six regiments and one battery, between
1,300 and 1,500 strong,(2) including three regiments of his own
brigade, the 4th, 5th, and 7th Texas, and three regiments of Major's
brigade--Lane's, Stone's, and Phillips's.  The river, and therefore
the bayou, were now low, exposing wide margins of batture, and
Green's plan was, while surrounding and threatening the fort on
its land faces, to gain an entrance on the water front by crossing
the batture and passing around the ends of the stockades.

At ten minutes past midnight the red light of a Coston signal from
the fort announced to the Navy that the enemy were coming.  At
twenty


fired through the loopholes; Phillips made a circuit of
the fort and tried the bayou stockade, while Herbert's 7th Texas
attempted to cross the ditch on the land side.  The fight at the
stockade was desperate in the extreme; those who succeeded in
surmounting or turning this barrier found an impassable obstacle
in the ditch, whose existence, strange to say, they had not even
suspected.  Here the combatants fought hand to hand; even the sick,
who had barely strength to walk from the hospital to the rampart,
took part in the defence.  The Texans assailed the defenders with
brickbats; these the Maine men threw back upon the heads of the
Texans; on both sides numbers were thus injured.  Lane, who was to
have supported Phillips, somehow went adrift, and Hardeman, who
was to have attacked thebetween the commanding general and his
chief-of-staff had been strained, and in spite of Stone's zeal and
gallantry in the late battles, Banks had determined on a change,
indeed had already announced it in orders, when on the 16th of
April he received an order of the War Office bearing date the 28th
of March, whereby Stone was relieved from duty in the Department
of the Gulf, deprived of his rank of brigadier-general, and ordered
to go to Cairo, Illinois, and thence to report by letter to the
adjutant-general of the army.  For this action neither cause nor
occasion has ever been made known.  Then Banks recalled his own
order and published this instead, and on the following day he made
Dwight his chief-of-staff, the command of Dwight's brigade falling
to Beal.

CHAPTER XXVII.
THE CROSSING OF CANE RIVER.

Banks broke


tried.  No emergency, however
great or sudden, ever finds a man of his stamp unready.  As soon
therefore as the collapse showed him the defect in his first plan,
he instantly set about remedying it by dividing the weight of water
to be contended with.  At the upper fall three wing-dams were
constructed.  Just above the rocks a stone crib was laid on the
south side, and directly opposite to this on the north side a
tree-dam, like those already described when speaking of the original
dam.  Just below the rocks, projecting diagonally from the north
bank, a bracket-dam was built, made of logs having one end sunk to
meet the current, the other end raised on trestles, and the whole
then sheathed with plank.  By this means the whole current was
turned intoon
the 19th of May, the troops took up their march in retreat, and so
brought the disastrous campaign of the Red River to an end just a
year after they had begun, in the same way and on the same spot,
the triumphant campaign of Port Hudson.

On the 20th A. J. Smith crossed, the bridge was broken up, and in
the evening the whole army marched for the Mississippi.  On the
21st, at Red River landing, the Nineteenth Corps bade farewell to
its brave comrades of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth.

A. J. Smith landed at Vicksburg on the 23d of May too late for the
part assigned him in the spring campaign of Sherman's army, and
the operations on the Mississippi being now reduced to the defensive,
he remained on the banks of the river until called


    Col. Lucius B. Marsh
42d Massachusetts (1)                 Lt.-Col. Joseph Stedman
28th Maine (1)                        Col. Ephraim W. Woodman

Third Brigade:
  Col. Frank S. Nickerson
14th Maine                            Lt.-Col. Thomas W. Porter
177th New York (1)                    Col. Ira W. Ainsworth
165th New York           5     4  35        2    46
26th Maine                          5     1  11        5    22
159th New York                     17     1  53        2    73
  Total Third Brigade


E      O  E     O  E    Aggregate
Cavalry:  Col. Benjamin H. Grierson
6th Illinois                        1         6    1   5    13
7th Illinois                                  4              4
1st Louisiana                            Killed    Wounded  Captured or missing
COMMAND                         O  E      O  E     O  E    Aggregate
First Division:  Brig.-Gen. Godfrey Weitzel
First Brigade:  Col. Charles J. Paine
2d Louisiana                        7        21        9


        C
Pvt. ---- Bracton                  C
Pvt. William Dallis                C
Pvt. Jack Dorson                   C
Pvt. William Finick                C
Pvt. Solomon Fleming               C
Pvt. William Green                 C
Pvt. George Joseph     E
Pvt. Edgar G. Adams                E
Pvt. Oliver D. Jewett              E
Pvt. Nathan W. Kendall             E
Pvt. James Powers                  E
Sgt. William M. Berry              H
Sgt. James W. Smith                I
Sgt. Henry Tyler (3)               H
Pvt.


George H. Harris              G
Cpl. Peter A. Martin (3)           G
Cpl. Francis M. Hurd               G
Pvt. George W. Dailey (3)          G
Pvt. Freeman Hadden (3)            G
Pvt. John W. McBride (3)           G
Pvt. Robert Payne (3)              G
Pvt. Charles E. Plummer (3)        G
Pvt. Enoch T. Simpson (3)                C
Pvt. Conrad Siegle                 C
Sgt. Theodore Churchill            D
Sgt. William Kelley (2)            D
Cpl. Thomas McConnell              D
Sgt. James Stack                   E
Sgt. George W. Keiley              E
Cpl. John McLaughlin


   K
Pvt. Eugene Detrich                K
Pvt. John Frazer                   K
Pvt. Jos. Gitey                    K
Pvt. Fleming Knipe                 K
Pvt. Dominick McConnell (2)        K
Pvt. John McDonald                 K
Pvt. Lewis Young            Recently released research on human evolution has revealed that species of early human ancestors had significant differences in facial features. Now, a University of Missouri researcher and her international team of colleagues have found that these early human species also differed throughout other parts of their skeletons and had distinct body forms. The research team found 1.9 million-year-old pelvis and femur fossils of an early human ancestor in Kenya, revealing greater diversity in the human family tree than scientists previously thought.

"What these new fossils are telling us is that the early species of our genus, Homo, were more distinctive than we thought. They differed not only in their faces and jaws, but in the rest of their bodies too," said Carol Ward, a professor of pathology and anatomical


for about a million years before our ancestors became the only Homo species left."

A small piece of the fossil femur was first discovered in 1980 at the Koobi Fora site in Kenya. Project co-investigator Meave Leakey returned to the site with her team in 2009 and uncovered the rest of the same femur and matching pelvis, proving that both fossils belonged to the same individual 1.9 million years ago.

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Ward's co-investigators include recent MU graduate Ashley Hammond of Stony Brook University, current MU graduate student Elizabeth Moffett, geologist Craig Feibel from Rutgers University, Louise and Meave Leakey of the Turkana Basin Institute and Stony Brook University, Michael Plavcan of the University of Arkansas, Matthew Skinner of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Fred Spoor of the UniversityGanagobie

28km north of Manosque via the N 4096 or by the charming little road coming from Lurs, the D462.
Ganagobie is the name given to the plateau, which from a height of 350 metres dominates La Durance and offers splendid look-out points over the valley. From the "'allée des Moines" (to the left of the church), you will have an exceptional view of the Valensole plateau and the foothills of the alps of Digne.

From the "allée de Forcalquier" (to the west of the plateau), you can see the Forcalquier basin and the Lure mountain.

The plateau is covered in pines, green oaks, broom and lavander and its hillsides are scattered with caves used as shelters during World War 2.

Ganagobie is also the name given to the remarkable priory situated on


the same plateau. This monastery was founded in the 10th century by the Archbishop of Sisteron, who donated it in 965 to the Cluny abbey.

The monks built the current monastery in the 12th century and between 12 and 15 monks worked on the land and in the forest until the 14th century.

Later abandoned and then restored, the church today boasts a finely worked doorway and superb 12th century mosaics on the inside.

The land of the Priory was given to the Sainte-Madeleine community of Marseille at the end of last century to re-establish the Benedictine monastic order.

The eastern part of the plateau and the living areas are reserved for the monks and closed to the public, but the section to the west is open to outsiders throughout the yearWalter O'Malley's position as a villain in Brooklyn history was sealed from the moment he packed up the Dodgers and moved them to Los Angeles. A new book from Jerald Podair, called City of Dreams, now explores what O'Malley went through in trying to open Dodger Stadium in L.A., and its got plenty of insights into how he tried to stay in Brooklyn, but was ultimately stymied by forces outside of his control. We talked with Podair about how Robert Moses stood in the way of O'Malley's Dodger Dome plans, how the fight over a Dodger Stadium in Downtown Brooklyn played out again 50 years later when the Barclays Center was built, and the role local governments should play in financing stadiums.

Can you go over a little bit


about what Robert Moses' role was in the way that O'Malley decided to leave Brooklyn? It's hard to imagine one individual being so powerful in one city during one era as Robert Moses was in the 1950s during New York. He was obviously not an elected official, never elected to anything, but because of his administrative positions during the 1950s, Moses controlled what got built in New York, who built it, where it got built.

When Walter O'Malley decided that he wanted to build a new stadium in Brooklyn, one that he would own, he realized very quickly that while he had the finances to build the stadium on his own, he didn't have the finances to get the land. The land would be very expensive and certainly veryLos Angeles reluctantly because he just felt he could not get the deal he wanted in New York.

The other aspect of it that struck me is that O'Malley was a true New Yorker. As one myself, I know the attitude of most New Yorkers, which is that New York is the greatest place in the world, it's the only place in the world, and it towers over all other cities and why would anyone want to leave the greatest place in the world? I think O'Malley had that attitude as a very proud New Yorker.

He moved to Los Angeles I think with regret and with some concern. I think it's pretty clear that if Moses had offered him the deal that he wanted, he wouldn't have thought twice


about Los Angeles. Or if someone else in city government had offered him a palatable deal, he would not have thought about Los Angeles.

Was there any other deal on the table? At the very, very end of this process in September of 1957, just weeks before the Dodgers announced that they're leaving for Los Angeles, Nelson Rockefeller, of all people, comes forward with a possible deal to buy the property at Atlantic and Flatbush, lease it to O'Malley rent-free for 20 years, after which O'Malley would buy the property and he could build the stadium in the mean time. That deal, I thought, had at least the seeds of keeping the Dodgers in Brooklyn.

It broke down over Rockefeller not wanting to put as much of his own moneyinto the deal as the city required, basically. He was a couple of million short. He just wouldn't go any farther in terms of the money that he was going to put in, and the city was going to have to pay for the rest, or O'Malley was going to have to pay for the rest.

The deal broke down not over philosophy, which is how the Moses part of the deal broke down. This Rockefeller deal broke down over money. I found that to be ironic because if Nelson Rockefeller had plenty of anything, it was plenty of money. The deal broke down with weeks to go before O'Malley made the decision. I think that was the last realistic chance to keep them in Brooklyn.

O'Malley was a little


O'Malley, who was not independently wealthy, was not one of those people.

He was a wealthy lawyer, but he had made money as a lawyer, ended up buying the Dodgers and then buying controlling interest in the Dodgers. That was his main way of making money. He wasn't, for example, Phil Wrigley of the Chicago Cubs who made his money in chewing gum, or Robert Carpenter who owned the Philadelphia Phillies at the time and was an heir to the DuPont fortune. O'Malley wasn't in that position. When you say, "Well you've got to come up with $6 million or $7 million," to O'Malley, that's serious money at the time and he's not in a position to come up with that money.

I don't even know whether a bank wouldphotographer - Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection)

I also noticed that there was almost like a dichotomy between Moses and O'Malley in terms of their background and their outlook and their personalities. Moses, although he was born Jewish, identified as a Protestant, as a High Protestant. O'Malley was an Irish Catholic. Moses came out of the progressive tradition in New York City. The good government tradition. O'Malley was associated with Tammany Hall. His father had been closely associated with Tammany Hall. O'Malley was while certainly not boss-ridden or anything, was comfortable in the milieu of Democratic politics in New York City. That brought him into conflict politically with someone like Moses.

They were sort of on the opposite sides of almost every street. Cultural, religious, political.


I think it was almost inevitable that they would not find a way to meet the minds. O'Malley was a businessman and he never made any apologies for that. Moses always portrayed himself as someone who was above mere business, who had the interests of the city and all the people of the city at heart and was public spirited and not grubby and selfish. I think Moses had a tremendous amount of contempt for businessmen generally, even though Moses himself in his own way was a businessman. You can be a businessman and still operate in the public realm, and I think Moses proved that.

The way that he looked at the world and looked at things, where he himself didn't take graft, but he certainly worked withpeople who were more than happy to participate in it. Oh, absolutely. He knew that, but he himself put himself in another realm. What also helped Moses during the '50s is he got really great newspaper coverage from the newspapers that mattered with intelligent people and people who read, literate people. That of course is the New York Times, also, at the time, the New York Herald Tribune, which was also what we might consider today, a high-brow paper. Moses was the darling of the editorial writers of those papers because they were very public spirited themselves, and were hostile to political machines like the Tammany machine.

Moses was a perfect acolyte to them. They could write great things about Moses and Moses cultivated the high newspapers like the


have had the impact that Robert Caro's The Power Broker had. Often, books of history, other historians read them or interested readers read them, but I think public officials were reading The Power Broker and they realized that to give one individual who wasn't even elected, that kind of power over the built environment of the city, was a mistake.

Do you also see a parallel in how Dodger Stadium was built, and then downtown Los Angeles would develop, and the Barclays Center was one part of what has become an enormous change in downtown Brooklyn where you've got high-rises and more luxury retail going up? Absolutely. I think there's certainly a parallel there. Recently, I was in New York to give a talk at the Brooklyn Historical Society.I hadn't been in Brooklyn in a while. I was struck by how unrecognizable it was almost from just maybe even a decade earlier. All this high-rise development, apartments, it looked like a different place.

What happened in Los Angeles as a result of Dodger Stadium was that a music center was built, an indoor sports arena was built, the Staples Center, art museums, restaurants, and high-rise apartments were built in what had pretty much been what I call a, "work and flee zone," in downtown Los Angeles up until the 1960s and 1970s. I think that made an impression on Brooklyn public officials. Not necessarily Manhattan public officials because Manhattan didn't need any help or advice from downtown Los Angeles.

A rendering of Downtown Brooklyn's forthcoming 1,000-foot skyscraper, surrounded


things at once. First of all, he was going to have to sort of glamorize it up and Hollywood it up to get the Hollywood stars to come to the games and give them good seats. He became very good friends with of all people, Cary Grant, who was not even an American, he was British, who became a very, very big baseball fan and sat with O'Malley in his box and was seen in the stadium club and everything. That's one side of what O'Malley knew he had to do. He had to involve Hollywood because L.A. is a city built on glamor.

He also knew that the vast majority of average Angelinos were not Hollywood types, and there were many, many more of them. In other words,stands. Of course they're sitting in the front row, in boxes, or private clubs, but you know, you never know who you're going to run into.

What O'Malley was doing in Los Angeles is he was sort of working both sides and I think very skillfully. He was glamorizing the team but he was also not pricing the team out of affordability for the average Angelino. He was able to do both things at the same time.

Now, O'Malley did not have to really deal with the era of free agency in baseball. The 1976 advent of free agency came in at the very end of his career as owner, he died in 1979. Obviously, owners today deal in a completely different world financially. Players are making huge amounts of


the best way forward, in your opinion? In my view, the best way, the ideal way is to have a private owner buy the land and build the stadium. Now, not every owner is wealthy enough to do that, but and I think the op-ed that you read discussed what went on in Los Angeles with Stan Kroenke, the owner of the Los Angeles Rams, previously the St. Louis Rams, who's a Walmart fortune heir, he's got a lot of money. He bought all the land that he wanted in Inglewood, California, which is sort of surrounded by Los Angeles, and constructed his own stadium on his own land.

Los Angeles was of course very happy because they didn't have to put in anything, and they're going to getThe first video was graphic enough. Two women, as shown in a Texas state trooper's dash cam recording, are probed in their vaginas and rectums by a glove-wearing female officer after a routine traffic stop near Dallas.

A few days later, a second video surfaced. It was an eerily similar scenario, but this time the traffic stop was just outside Houston, and with different troopers. Two women, pulled over for allegedly speeding, are subjected to body cavity searches by a female officer summoned to the scene by a male trooper.

Unlike the earlier tape, this one had clear audio. Yells can be heard as the female trooper shoves her gloved finger inside one woman.

In both invasive incidents, the female troopers don't change gloves between probes, according to the horrified victims.

Texas


Quaker Records

From the time of their first arrival in Ireland in the seventeenth century, The Society of Friends, or Quakers, kept rational and systematic records of the births, marriages and deaths of all of their members, and in most cases these continue without a break up to the present. Parish registers as such were not kept. Each of the local weekly meetings reported any births, marriages or deaths to a larger Monthly Meeting, which then entered them in a register. Monthly Meetings were held in the following areas: Antrim, Ballyhagan, Carlow, Cootehill, Cork, Dublin, Edenderry, Grange, Lisburn, Limerick, Lurgan, Moate, Mountmellick, Richhill, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, and Wicklow. For all but Antrim and Cootehill registers have survived from an early date, and are detailed here
.

The entries for births, marriagesand deaths do not themselves contain information other than the names and addresses of the immediate parties involved, but the centralisation of the records, and the self-contained nature of the Quaker community, make it a relatively simple matter to establish family connections; many of the local records are given in the form of family lists, in any case.

There are two main repositories for records, the libraries of the Society of Friends in Dublin and Lisburn. The LDS Library in Salt Lake City has microfilm copies of the records of the Dublin Friends' library. As well as the records outlined below, these also hold considerable collections of letters, wills, family papers, as well as detailed accounts of the discrimination suffered by the Quakers in their early years.

Fully comprehensive listings


of the dates and locations of all
known copies of Church records, cross-linked to the areas they
cover, can be found through the Ancestor
Search or the Subscription section.

Births Marriages and Burials

Ballyhagan Marriages. Library of the Society of Friends, Lisburn. Also NLI Pos. 4127.

Carlow births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos. 1021.

Cork, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. (NLI Pos. 1021). See also Cork (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries) NLI Pos. 5530.

Dublin, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos. 1021 (births and marriages) and 1022 (burials).

Edenderry, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos. 1022;1612 1814 (in the form of family lists), NLI Pos. (microfilm) 5531.

Grange, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos. 1022.

Lisburn, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos. 1022.

Limerick, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos. 1022.

Lurgan, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. (NLI Pos. 1022) See also Lurgan Marriage Certificates, Library of the Society of Friends, Lisburn. (NLI Pos. (microfilm) 4126).

Moate, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos. 1022.

Mountmellick, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society


of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos. 1023. and Positive 5530.

Mountrath. Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos. 5530.

Richhill, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos. 1023.

Tipperary, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos. 1024.

Waterford, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos. 1024.

Wexford, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos. 1024.

Wicklow, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos. 1024.

Youghal, births, marriages and deaths up to 1859, Library of the Society of Friends, Dublin. Also NLI Pos.underwater restaurant that the company designed has finally been finished.

The name of the new restaurant is quite simple: Under. It has room to seat 100 guests when it’s at capacity, making it the largest underwater restaurant currently in the world. Not just that, but it’s also the only restaurant of its kind in Europe. The restaurant actually has two functions: to offer diners a unique and once-in-a-lifetime dining experience, as well as serve as a marine life research center.

The building itself is 111 feet long. It sits partially submerged into the ocean, its design lending itself to integrating with the surrounding environment since the building is constructed out of rough concrete with serves as the perfect base for an artificial reef system.

“As a new landmark for Southern Norway,


move a lot faster around me, I move more slowly. I hope to see you soon, I'm not going to go away. I like Washington State people and the school itself too much to do that. But I am going to be on the retired list, starting immediately."

Robertson was in his 52nd year calling Cougar athletics, serving as the play-by-play voice from 1964-2011, then moving over to the analyst chair for the past seven seasons. He began his association with WSU football in 1964 and with the exception of a three-year period from 1969-71, has been a member of WSU's broadcast crew ever since. He was behind the mic for 589 Cougar games, including 568 consecutive broadcasts from 1964-2016, the lone exception being the 1981 Holiday Bowl whenlocal radio was not permitted to broadcast.

"When you think of the icons of Washington State Athletics, Bob Robertson certainly comes to mind," said WSU Director of Athletics Pat Chun. "Bob has painted the picture for many generations of Cougar fans and we thank him for what he has meant to Washington State Athletics. We will also recognize his many achievements at a Cougar Football game next month in Martin Stadium."

As much as Robertson is part of Cougar Football Saturday, so is his closing broadcast signature, "Always be a good sport, be a good sport all ways."

Robertson has been behind the mic for many magical moments and seasons of Cougar football, including the Cardiac Kids, the Palouse Posse, the Fab Five, the 1981 Holiday Bowl, WSU's first bowl game


in 50 years, as well as the 1998 and 2002 Rose Bowls. Additionally, he called Rueben Mayes' 357-yard rushing game at Oregon, the 1992 Snow Bowl, 54 Apple Cups (including the three while calling games at Washington) and worked alongside 10 head coaches.

Robertson has had a legendary career, having been selected Washington Sportscaster of the Year 12 times, validating what Cougar fans have known for years - he is simply the best. In 1995 he was named the State Broadcaster of the Year.

Robertson was inducted into both the WSU Athletic Hall of Fame and the Inland Empire Hall of Fame in 2001-02, and in August 2004 received the prestigious Chris Schenkel Award at ceremonies held at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind. At thesame time he became the first broadcaster west of the Mississippi to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame - broadcaster division. He is also a member of the Pierce County Hall of Fame and during the 2009 season, the Cougars' radio booth in Martin Stadium was renamed the Bob Robertson Broadcast Suite.

Bob's association with WSU runs deeper than just football broadcasts. For 23 years he was the voice of Cougar Basketball, including several NCAA tournament teams. In 1978-79, he was named WSU's Dad of the Year and he also worked with the WSU Cougar Club on the west side in the 1980's.

Among his many accomplishments, Robertson has:

· Spent three decades calling Pacific Coast League baseball in Seattle and Tacoma

· Broadcast professional soccer in Seattle, Tacoma


and Portland; he was Washington's Soccer Man of the Year in 1983

· Broadcast hockey, boxing, wrestling and hydroplane races

· Had his "cup of coffee" in major league baseball, broadcasting some Seattle Mariner games in the late 1990's

· Served as television sports anchor in the Seattle market for 25 years, including time with KSTW (called KTNT 1956-70, then KSTW 1976-83) and KMO (he helped put them on the air)

· Long-time voice of the Spokane Indians baseball team and Pacific Lutheran University basketball

· Served as the television voice of Notre Dame football and basketball for two years in the 1950's.

Robertson was born in Fullerton, Calif., during spring training of the Seattle Indians of the Pacific Coast League. At the time his father was a player for the Seattle club. Aftergraduating from Blaine (Wash.) High School, he attended Western Washington University in Bellingham, where he launched his broadcasting career. His first broadcasting exposure came as a young actor for the Canadian Broadcasting Company in Vancouver, B.C., then bloomed while attending college.

In 1948 Robertson signed to play professional baseball, but a year later gave up playing to become the voice of the Wenatchee Chiefs of the Western International League, his first full-time broadcasting opportunity.

Robertson and his wife, Joanne, were married for 59 years before her passing in 2011. They have four children, Hugh, Janna, John and Rebecca, and seven grandchildren.


[Sixty years' development of Institute of Burn Research of Southwest Hospital: special for the 60th anniversary of Chinese burn medicine].
This year is the 60th anniversary of both Chinese burn medicine and Institute of Burn Research of Southwest Hospital of Army Medical University. The institute is one of the earliest burn centers in China founded in 1958 by professor Li Ao, one of the pioneers of Chinese burn medicine and the academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering. With unremitting efforts of several generations, the institute consists of three main sections at present, including clinical section which is composed of national key clinical department, research section which is composed of national key laboratory, and two editorial offices of Chinese Journal of Burns and Burns & Trauma. During the 60 yearsducts entering the female atrium dorsally and the absence of a permanent penis.

Species
There are nine species assigned to the genus Notogynaphallia:

Notogynaphallia biseminalis (Riester, 1938)
Notogynaphallia fortuita Negrete, Gira & Brusa, 2019
Notogynaphallia froehlichae Ogren & Kawakatsu, 1990
Notogynaphallia modesta (von Graff, 1899)
Notogynaphallia mourei (Froehlich, 1956)
Notogynaphallia nawei Negrete, Leal-Zanchet & Brusa, 2015
Notogynaphallia parca (E. M. Froehlich, 1955)
Notogynaphallia plumbea (Froehlich, 1956)
Notogynaphallia sexstriata (Graff, 1899)

Also, there are some species currently considered incertae sedis:

Notogynaphallia andina (Hyman, 1962)
Notogynaphallia atra (Schultze & Müller, 1857)
Notogynaphallia garua (du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1951)
Notogynaphallia quinquestriata (Hyman, 1962)

Several species formerly placed in Notogynaphallia are currently placed in the genera Imbira and Luteostriata.

References

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Category:Rhabditophora genera


Tag Archives: Green Hairstreak

The city of San Francisco is by no means undiscovered territory. One of the most loved and visited cities in the nation, the City by the Bay is a perennial favorite. Everyone is aware of major attractions like Alcatraz Island, Embarcadero Wharf, San Francisco’s sourdough, and Lombard Street’s famous curves, but here are five of my favorite little-known sites that you shouldn’t miss on your next visit.

Visit the South Pacific

Recreate the exoticism of the South Pacific with a visit to the Tonga Room. Fans of Jimmy Buffett will recognize the name, but others may have missed this explosion of bamboo, seashells, and tiki figurines. During World War II, tiki bars opened all across the country, with San Francisco jumping on the trend relatively early. Whileit’s now considered a bit kitschy, the Tonga Lounge, which opened in the luxurious Fairmont hotel in 1945, was once the place to be seen. Even today, the pool in the center of the restaurant, where the band plays, is a unique feature.

Sleep Like Royalty

When you visit the Tonga Room in the Fairmont Hotel, ask to take a peek at the hotel’s luxurious penthouse suite. Spanning a staggering 6,000 square feet and costing a whopping $18,000 per night, this suite has housed the likes of Prince Charles, Mick Jagger, and Alfred Hitchcock. It features a two-story library, a cornucopia of design styles, and a dining table that seats 60. One of its main claims to fame is the secret passageway that John F. Kennedy supposedly used to allow


Marilyn Monroe to enter.

Step into the Sunset District

Located in the quiet and relatively undiscovered Sunset District, the 163 mosaic-tiled steps are worth the effort to climb. Completed over the course of two years, the gorgeous steps lead to beautiful views of the city. They also pave the way to the neighboring Green Hairstreak corridor, along with the beautiful succulents and native habitat designed to sustain the local butterfly population.

Slide in the Park

The Seward Street Slides are a perfect example of community activism and protecting green spaces. In the 1960s, this area was slated for development, prompting local residents got together to protest with an epic bulldozer-defying sit-in. After nearly a decade of protests, the community won their lot back and turned it into a city park, which openedfor Metro's Green Line between Fort Totten and Greenbelt, Maryland. The IFB contained a "Buy American Certificate" which bidders were expected to execute, along with numerous other certificates.[3] WMATA received numerous bids. Plaintiff was the low bidder, but had not executed the Buy American Certificate contained in its bid. Dynatran was the second lowest bidder. No allegations have been made suggesting that Dynatran's bid failed in any way to conform to the IFB. Upon opening the bids and noting plaintiff's unexecuted Buy American Certificate, WMATA contacted plaintiff's representatives, who in turn immediately forwarded an executed Buy American Certificate. That same day, however, WMATA verbally advised plaintiff that it regarded plaintiff's bid as nonresponsive because, as initially submitted, the bid did not include an executed Buy American Certificate. On


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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Bronx Politics

100 PERCENT

By Robert Press

Closing Out The Week

The Bronx Chamber of Commerce held their Hispanic Heritage Leadership Luncheon last Wednesday, and Yankee Closer (this year) Rafael Soriano was to close the luncheon with a guest appearance. However due to the rain out of the game scheduled for Tuesday, the game was made up as part of a doubleheader on Wednesday thus making Soriano unavailable to attend the BCC luncheon. The appearance of Yankee closer Rafael Soriano was then rescheduled for Friday at St. Raymond's Catholic School in Parkchester.

In less than two days Mr. Lenny Caro President of the Bronx Chamber of Commerce arranged to have sportscaster Duke Castiglione interview Yankee closer Rafael Soriano as Mr. Ray Negron translated for the Dominican Republic native Soriano onthe stage in the school auditorium. The room was packed with children from the school, and after the interview the children were treated to another Yankee star, the Yankee mascot called “Bleacher Creature”. You can go to my blog at www.100percentbronx.blogspot.com for more on the Wednesday luncheon and Friday visit to St. Raymond's School by Yankee closer Rafael Soriano, and of course lots of photos.

What with primary day over the Bronx Democratic County Committee held their semi annual County Committee Call last Thursday to select officers and the Bronx County Leader. After a rather calm meeting (unlike in the past) the only real change was that Riverdalian Andrew Cohen was elected as one of the Vice-Chairs of the party to County Committee Chair Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (of Riverdale).


freshman season when looking at the big picture. He averaged nearly 13 points per contest, grabbed over eight rebounds a game and shot over 50% from the floor. He starred in Wake wins against BC (26/7), Clemson (21/10) and Duke (15/10). Aminu led all ACC rookies in rebounding, including 11 games as the Deacons team leader while scoring in double-figures 22 times. Due to his superior talent, Wake fans will still maintain they expect Aminu to take it to another level in 2009-10. Too often the 6’9 forward disappeared, though, scoring four points in 28 minutes in a 27-point loss to Miami or nine points in a close loss to bottom-feeder NC State or an 8 point, 2/12 FG performance in the ACC Tournament defeat at the handsIn his three seasons at Clemson, his teams have averaged 24 wins against 10 losses, and the 26 ACC Ws and two NCAA Tournament appearances the Tigers have achieved in large part through his ferocious dunks and tenacious defense represent the best three-year period in the program’s history. Booker had a slight scare last month with a low-grade stress fracture in his foot, but he’s expected to be completely healthy for the beginning of practice in October. It’s a good thing, because when Booker hangs up his kicks for the last time as a Clemson Tiger next March, he may very well be in the argument as the most accomplished player in the history of Clemson basketball.


Sergeant Hannah succeeded in forcing his way through the fire in order to grab two extinguishers. He then discovered that the Rear Gunner was missing. Quite undaunted he fought the fire for 10 minutes, and when the fire extinguishers were exhausted he beat the flames with his log book. During this time, ammunition from the gunner’s magazines was exploding in all directions. In spite of this and the fact that he was almost blinded by the intense heat and fumes, he succeeded in controlling and eventually putting out the fire. During the process of fighting the flames, he had turned on his oxygen to assist him in his efforts.

The relatively small RAF Bomber Command was nothing like the force it would become in just a few years time.It was only equipped with twin engined medium bombers that would very soon be regarded as obsolete. Yet, with fear of an invasion of Britain at its height, RAF Bomber Command was given a task regarded as at least as important as defending the skies above Britain – it was sent out, night after night, to do as much damage as possible to the naval forces that Hitler had gathered for the cross channel attack.

Most of these targets were very well defended. There was no shortage of bravery amongst the aircrew that had to face them.

Sergeant John Hannah was 18 when he became one of the youngest recipients of the Victoria Cross. The original recommendation for the award reads:

On the night of September 15/16th., Sergeant Hannah was the


Wireless Operator/Air Gunner of an aircraft detailed to carry out operations on enemy barge concentrations at Antwerp. After completing a successful attack on the target, his aircraft was subjected to intense anti-aircraft fire, during the course of which the bomb compartment received a direct hit. A fire started and quickly enveloped the Wireless Operator/ Air Gunner’s and Rear Gunner’s cockpits. Both the port and starboard petrol tanks were also pierced, thus causing grave risk of fire spreading still further. Sergeant Hannah succeeded in forcing his way through the fire in order to grab two extinguishers. He then discovered that the Rear Gunner was missing. Quite undaunted he fought the fire for 10 minutes, and when the fire extinguishers were exhausted he beat the flames with his log book.During this time, ammunition from the gunner’s magazines was exploding in all directions. In spite of this and the fact that he was almost blinded by the intense heat and fumes, he succeeded in controlling and eventually putting out the fire. During the process of fighting the flames, he had turned on his oxygen to assist him in his efforts. On instructions from his pilot, Sergeant Hannah then crawled forward to ascertain if the navigator was alright, only to find that he also was missing. He informed his pilot and passed up the navigator’s log and maps, stating that he was quite alright himself, in spite of burns and exhaustion from the heat and fumes. An inspection of the aircraft reveals the conditions under which Sergeant Hannah was


working. The sides of the fuselage were ripped away by enemy action and exploding bullets. Metal was distorted and the framework scorched by the intense heat. The two carrier pigeons were completed roasted. His own parachute was burned out. During this operation, in which he received second degree burns to his face and eyes, Sergeant Hannah displayed outstanding coolness, courage and devotion to duty of the very highest order. By his action he not only saved the life of his pilot, but enabled his aircraft to be flown back safely to its base without any further damage. Sergeant Hannah has completed a total of 74 hours flying as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner on 11 Operational flights against the enemy.

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The citation that was published to mark theaward of the Victoria Cross was substantially the same, although it omitted reference to the ‘completely roasted’ carrier pigeons.

John Hannah had been badly injured, far more than seems apparent from this photograph. His health was severely affected and, after contracting tuberculosis, he was eventually discharged from the RAF with a disability pension in 1942. He was unable to work full time and he struggled to support his family. He died in 1947.


The football game played Saturday in Madison could have taken place 20 years ago. Wisconsin performed a complete takedown of Michigan, outclassing the Wolverines on both lines. The Badgers were unstoppable in the running game, piling up 359 yards on 57 carries. They pressured Michigan on 39.6 percent of dropbacks, negating the Wolverines’ speed at the skill positions. They led 28-0 at halftime and had the ball for more than 41 out of 60 minutes.

In short, they played the game that Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has always wanted his team to play. After he accepted his first head coaching job, at San Diego in 2004, Harbaugh told legendary Michigan coach Bo Schembechler that he would always have a fullback on his roster. As they shift toward spread conceptsyears; since 2005, the style has produced nine double-digit-win seasons and three Rose Bowl berths. But the Badgers have not played for a national championship in that time. They came closest in 2017, when they marched undefeated through the regular season but fell just short to Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game. That team, perhaps more than any other, illustrated the perils of playing a plodding style in this era. When it counted, Ohio State raced past Wisconsin for 57-yard and 84-yard touchdown passes in the first quarter, and the Badgers managed only one offensive touchdown in a 27-21 loss. When their defense gave them two final chances to take the lead in the fourth quarter, their offense finished those drives with a punt and an


Two seasons ago, Wisconsin did not play a top-15 team until the conference championship, and losing that game knocked the team out of playoff contention. This year, the Badgers can make a huge statement by beating the Buckeyes for the first time since 2010. Their schedule may even afford them two cracks at it: If they win all their other games, they could lose to the Buckeyes in their regular-season matchup next month, avenge that loss in the Big Ten title game and still make the playoff.

If they can’t beat Ohio State, the Badgers will likely become another good team with a stout defense and an offense that’s serviceable but not flashy, potentially ending up in a New Year’s Six bowl but missing the playoff. And if WisconsinItems with tag “children's charity”

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gene\'s promoter includes three nucleosome binding sites, and they were able to tabulate the relative frequency of each of the eight possible binding states (i.e., occupied-occupied-occupied, occupied-occupied-empty, etc.).

Next, they built a mathematical probability model to test various assumptions about the transitions among the binding states. They distinguished three kinds of transitions: assembly of a nucleosome on a binding site, disassembly and removal, or sliding of a nucleosome from one site to another. They found that assembly and disassembly alone accounted for the number of observed nucleosomes, but that sliding was needed to account for their distribution. In particular, it appeared that sliding out of the middle position toward the ends was common. Further, the best fit with the data came when disassembly at the first position occurred onlythe ward sister assignment as named nurse was not realistic. Possible cost savings to support the hiring of additional qualified nurses were identified to include reducing shift change from two hours down to one, reducing supervision costs, and moving clerical and housekeeping tasks from nursing to other hospital staff members.

In the 1990's, industry consultants led a movement of hospitals into restructuring and re-engineering in the name of cost-cutting, that had the effect of reducing professional nursing autonomy and judgment by use of multi-skilled team members. The term primary nursing fell out of use, and the concepts were modified. Other changes included de-emphasis of the nurse-patient relationship. This had a negative effect on nursing satisfaction with the care they were able to provide to patients.

In the UK, hospital


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Donald Elvey (left), General Manager of the All Island Banana Growers’ Association, shows the Hon J.C. Hutchinson (right), Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, and banana farmers equipment to be installed in the newly constructed banana and plantain value added facility, built under the Jamaica Banana Accompanying Measures Programme, at Trinity in St. Mary during a tour of the facility on February 2.

The Ministry

Welcome to the official website of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries.

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF) has been charged with the responsibility of driving the integration of the production of primary agricultural produce along all the stages of the supply chain through to value added and facilitating full commercializationBladderball over a fence or out one of the gates of the Old Campus, whereupon a flying wedge of Yale Campus Police would seize possession of the Bladderball and hastily deflate it, terminating that year’s contest.

I recall that, one year, the undergraduate community bested the Campus Cops by successfully moving the Bladderball through New Haven streets for blocks and blocks, finally putting it over the fence into the yard of the residence of the University President on Hillhouse Avenue, as President Brewster cheered them on.

Since there was no actual set of rules or system of scoring, it was traditional for every team to compete in loudest, and earliest, and most preposterous claims of victory.

Student demand seems to have persuaded Richard Levin, the current Yale President, to do the


the name of safety, the U.S. Naval Academy is considering an overhaul of one of its most bizarre traditions: the annual ritual in which a thousand first-year midshipmen struggle to conquer a 21-foot granite obelisk coated with 200 pounds of lard.

The Herndon Climb has occupied a hallowed place in Naval Academy tradition for decades. For members of the plebe class, the climb represents what a former midshipman called “our final exam of all finals.” The starter gun fires, and the plebes, working together, race to replace a blue-rimmed sailor’s cap, known as a “dixie cup,” with a midshipman’s cap.

The scene is unforgettable to those who watch, as the sweating, grunting, red-faced midshipmen at the bottom, their arms linked, support a human pyramid surging to the top of theSri Lanka bombings: 215 confirmed dead, several arrested

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Sri Lanka bombing

Several arrested over bomb blasts in Sri Lanka that left 207 dead.Credit: AAP

Easter Day bomb blasts at Sri Lankan churches and luxury hotels have killed at least 215 people and wounding at least 450 people after a lull in major attacks since the end of the civil war 10 years ago.

In just one church, St Sebastian's in Katuwapitiya, north of Colombo, more than 50 people had been killed, a police official told Reuters, with pictures showing bodies on the ground, blood on the pews and a destroyed roof.

Eight people have been arrested, and three police officers were killed during a security forces raid on a house in the Sri Lankan capital several hours after


the attacks, many of which were suicide bomb explosions, officials said.

Sri Lanka's defence minister has ordered a night curfew to take effect from 6 pm to 6 am. The government has shut down access to some social media and messaging services to prevent misinformation and rumours.

Six near-simultaneous bombings have hit three churches and three tourist hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.Image: AAP

Media reported 25 people were also killed in an attack on a church in Batticaloa in Eastern Province.

The three hotels hit were the Shangri-La Colombo, Kingsbury Hotel and Cinnamon Grand Colombo. It was unclear whether there were any casualties in the hotels.

There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attacks in a country which was at war for decades with Tamil separatists until 2009 duringwhich bomb blasts in the capital were common.

Up to 32 of the dead were foreigners, including five British people, two of whom had dual US citizenship, and three Indians, according to officials in those countries.

Also among the fatalities were three people from Denmark, two from Turkey, and one from Portugal, officials said. There were also Chinese and Dutch among the dead, according to media reports.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said US nationals were among those killed, but did not give details. There are 25 unidentified bodies, believed to be of foreigners, at the Colombo Judicial Medical Officer's mortuary, Sri Lanka's foreign ministry said.

There was carnage in multiple churches.Image: Hiru TV via AAPOne of the bombs detonated at St. Anthony's Shrine in Colombo, a famous Roman Catholic church.Image:


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Prime minister responds

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe called a national security council meeting at his home for later in the day.

"I strongly condemn the cowardly attacks on our people today. I call upon all Sri Lankans during this tragic time to remain united and strong," he said in a tweet.

"Please avoid propagating unverified reports and speculation. The government is taking immediate steps to contain this situation."

The prime minister confirmed that the government had some "prior information of the attack" though ministers were not told.

Agence France Presse reported that it had seen documents showing that Sri Lanka's police chief Pujuth Jayasundara issued an intelligence alert to top officers 10 days ago, warning that suicide bombers planned to hit "prominent churches". He cited a foreign intelligence service as reporting that alittle-known Islamist group was planning attacks.

He said there wasn't an adequate response and there needed to be an inquiry into how the information was used. He also said the government needs to look at the international links of a local militant group.

Sri Lankan army soldiers secure the area around St. Anthony's Shrine after a blast in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, April 21, 2019.Image: AAP

One of the explosions was at St Anthony's Church in Kochcikade, Colombo.

St. Sebastian's church posted pictures of destruction inside the church on its Facebook page, showing blood on pews and the floor, and requested help from the public.

Religious violence

Last year, there were 86 verified incidents of discrimination, threats and violence against Christians, according to the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL), which represents


is difficult to offer reasonable projections at the moment.

Behind its dismal performance was a high-profile family feud that has continued for over a decade.

Kumiko, the eldest daughter of company founder Katsuhisa Otsuka, drew attention from the business community in 2009 when she became Otsuka Kagu’s president for the first time, offering a new strategy to shore up stagnant sales. Traditionally, Otsuka Kagu had offered high-class imported furniture aimed at wealthy consumers.

With experience in banking, Kumiko brought certain success by offering more casual product lines targeting younger generations. Her strategy led the company to increase the number of customers per outlet.

But Katsuhisa Otsuka didn’t like the way his daughter changed his furniture empire. He ousted her from the top post and installed himself as both chairman and president inOne of the biggest transfers this offseason leading up to the Liga MX Apertura 2017 was Chilean forward Edson Puch moving from Necaxa to Pachuca. The team from Aguascalientes had a busy transfer window and started a rebuilding process with Ignacio Ambriz at the helm.

The rebuilding process has been a success so far as Necaxa currently sits in fifth place with 12 points tied in points with Toluca in fourth and Tigres UANL in third. Ignacio Ambriz has led this renovated team to three wins, three draws and only one loss in this tournament and looks to be on track to make the playoffs.

Edson Puch was a huge loss but Ambriz did a fantastic job spending the money from that transfer in the offseason. The most recent result


for Los Rayos was a 2-1 win against Atlas at home, the other wins for Necaxa have come against Club Tijuana at home and Veracruz away from home. Seven players that were not on the team in the Clausura 2017 featured in that match, five in the starting 11 and two off the bench.

The five in the starting lineup for Ignacio Ambriz were Igor Lichnovsky, Miguel Angel Ponce, Pablo Velasquez, Dieter Villalpando and Carlos Gonzalez. The two that came off the bench were Roberto Alvarado and Martin Barragan with offseason acquisitions Daniel Alvarez and Facundo Pereyra also featuring on the bench but not getting minutes in the game. The goals were both influenced by players that came over this season as Pablo Velasquez had the shot that ledto Facundo Erpen’s own goal and Roberto Alvarado had the winning goal off a potent strike from the half-moon.

The rebuilding process has been a success as the batch of new players in Aguascalientes has really improved the team and made the team more solid from top to bottom as opposed to reliance on one key player.

The defense has looked rigid with the additions of Lichnovsky and Ponce and has helped the team keep leads once they get them especially with Marcelo Barovero in net. The squad now has immense depth as well as there are decent players who are not cracking the starting 11 like Martin Barragan and Daniel Alvarez. Barragan has made efficient use of his limited playing time with three assists in just 186 minutes of


Bangalore beckons Williams sisters

Published: Monday, February 4, 2008, 15:54 [IST]

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{image-williams sisters_04022008.jpg www.oneindia.com}Bangalore, Feb 4: Venus Williams has become the latest celebrity to join the field with her sibling Serena in the six lakh US Dollar Bangalore Open beginning here on March 3.

While Serena had confirmed her participation earlier, the entry of reigning Wimbledon Champion Venus in the Tier-II WTA event was announced by Tournament Director Sunder Raju at a press conference here today. He said it was for the first time in India the two sisters, who together have earned 37 million US Dollar in prize money together, would be participating in the event.

The Grand Slam winners are sure to enthrall the tennis lovers, he said adding, ''It is a unique situation the two startennis players will be playing other than in a Grand Slam event,'' he added.

Mr Raju said the confirmation of the World No six Venus was received from her office.

The 27-year-old California-born is the Olympic medallist and has 14 Grand Slam titles to her credit. Of this, six were singles (four Wimbledon and two US Open), six women's doubles and two mixed doubles titles.

''This is surely an exciting time for tennis in India. Venus is a champion beyond comparison. I am sure her confirmation coupled with Serena, will take tennis fans in India by storm.''


Towards eradication: three years after the tsunami of 2004, has malaria transmission been eliminated from the island of Simeulue?
The island of Simeulue was the first landfall of the tsunami of December 2004. The tsunami destroyed many villages on the island, leaving one third of the population homeless. Malaria is endemic in Simeulue and an epidemic was reported to have occurred three months prior to the tsunami. Information concerning malaria was, however, not easily available. The earthquakes related to the tsunami may have created extensive potential breeding sites of Anopheles sundaicus, the probable vector, and increased vulnerability of the human population; a possibility of increased transmission made a further outbreak possible. Consequently, subsequent to the tsunami, considerable amounts of aid, including anti-malarial measures such as insecticide treated mosquito-nets, wereMultani Mal Modi College

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Multani Mal Modi College is an Indian College. It is located in Patiala, Punjab, India.

History
It was established in 1967 with financial help from Gujjar Mal Modi.

It is affiliated to Punjabi University, Patiala, and is managed by Rai Bahadur Multani Mal Modi Charitable Trust.
It was established by the late Padma Bhushan, Rai Bahadur Seth Gujjar Mal Modi, a business magnate of India, in the memory of his father Rai Bahadur Seth Multani Mal Modi.
Its foundation stone was laid by Dr Dharam Vira, ICS, the then Governor of Punjab on 21 September 1966 and the first academic session commenced in July 1967. The college is owned and maintained by the magnanimous and enlightened Modi Education Society. It is headed by its Chairman Seth Sudarshan Kumar


Teams Interested In Dunn, Willingham

The Tigers, who we know are looking for a bat, are interested in Nationals' outfielders Adam Dunn and Josh Willingham according to MLB.com's Bill Ladson. The Nats want young pitching in return, and have been scouting players with Detroit's Double-A affiliate in Erie according to an industry source.

Ladson also writes that the Rangers have been scouting the Nats lately, and are believed to be interested in Willingham.had failed to make a determination on Plaintiffs' applications for naturalization before the end of the 120-day period after the Plaintiffs filed the applications.
As the Court set out in its February 14, 2006 Order, 2006 WL 5838985 on the parties' cross motions for summary judgment in this case, the parties did not dispute the chronology or timing of the events at issue in this case:
On September 5, 1997, Plaintiff Jaleh Tadjdeh ("Tadjdeh") was admitted to the United States as a conditional permanent resident on the basis of her approved petition for classification in the employment-based, fifth-preference ("EB-5") immigrant visa category. On December 30, 1997, her husband Mike Abghari ("Abghari") was admitted to the United States as a conditional permanent *1338 resident on the basis of his status as


April 16, 2008. The parties then twice stipulated to continue the hearing: first to August 12, 2008, and then to October 1, 2008. The Court then re-set the hearing for October 30, 2008.
On October 10, 2008, the Court issued a Minute Order in advance of that hearing date, stating:
After an agency denial of an application for naturalization, the Court has the authority to make its own factual findings and legal conclusions in connection with the naturalization application:
A person whose application for naturalization under this subchapter is denied, after a hearing before an immigration officer under section 1447(a) of this Title, may seek review of such denial before the United States district court for the district in which such person resides in accordance with chapter 7 of Title 5.may be naturalized. Stated otherwise, the question of whether the conditions could, can, or should be removed from Plaintiffs' permanent resident status is not before the Court and never has been.
Oct. 10, 2008 Order. The Court advised the parties that it anticipated hearing argument on this legal issue at the October 30, 2008 hearing and directed the parties as follows: "If either party has contrary authority, a brief should be filed and served no later than October 20, 2008." Id.
On October 16, 2008, the parties stipulated to continue the hearing to February 10-11, 2009.
On October 20, 2008, Plaintiffs filed their "Trial Brief in Support of Conditional Residence Eligibility to Naturalize," responding to the Court's October 10, 2008 Order and reiterating their position that they are eligible for naturalization


the United States from the date of the application up to the time of admission to citizenship; and
(3) during all the periods referred to in this subsection has been and still is a person of good moral character....
8 U.S.C. § 1427(a).
The implementing regulations state, in relevant part, that "to be eligible for naturalization, an alien must establish that he or she:
(1) Is at least 18 years of age;
(2) Has been lawfully admitted as a permanent resident of the United States;

(3) Has resided continuously within the United States, as defined under § 316.5, for a period of at least five years after having been lawfully admitted for permanent residence;
(4) Has been physically present in the United States for at least 30 months of the five years preceding the dateprovide that, for purposes of naturalization, "in the case of an alien who is in the United States as a lawful permanent resident on a conditional basis under this section, the alien shall be considered to have been admitted as an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence and to be in the United States as an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence." 8 U.S.C. § 1186b(e) (emphasis added).

C. Analysis
As the parties are well aware, neither the statute nor the regulations address whether a naturalization application by a conditional permanent resident may be approved before the conditions are removed from the applicant's status. In fact, the statutory and regulatory language is far from clear in this regard, creating a "conditional" status but also providing that


coerced into entering the marriage by force. Id. Bilali's petition to remove the conditions on his status was denied because his spouse refused to answer questions at the second interview. Id. at 473. "At subsequent removal proceedings, Bilali argued that his conditional status was wrongly revoked and that it should have been made permanent without further proof that the marriage was bona fide. He claims that because the immigration judge who granted him conditional permanent status had made a preliminary determination that his marriage was bona fide, collateral estoppel should operate to bar further inquiry into the question." Id. The Sixth Circuit quoted the immigration judge's "cogent" reasoning in rejecting Bilali's argument:
On its face, respondent's position crumbles on its own weight. The statute uses the term "conditional" atWhile the game at Huddersfield had all the hallmarks of early season, with players still feeling their way into their respective systems, the end result was exactly what was needed from a City perspective, and whilst reversing the record run of losses was vital, to do so with a clean sheet was the icing on the cake.


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Dr. Jeff Voegtlin has been in Christian service for over twenty years. He is an associate pastor at Fairhaven Baptist Church in Chesterton, Indiana, and a Vice President of Fairhaven Baptist College. As conductor of the church and schools' orchestra program, and overseer of the educational program of the college, his teaching has helped to train hundreds of young adults to prepare for full-time ministry. After completing a bachelor's degree from Fairhaven Baptist College, he received a master's degree in Bible from Pensacola Christian College. In 2007, he completed the requirements to finish a doctor's degree in education from Bob Jones University. Dr. Voegtlin is available for seminars in instrumental and choral music practice and philosophy, for education seminars, and to preach and present theprocedure was stopped immediately after Dr. Stroud made an incision and found that Mrs. Gambill's blood was "very dark." This blood coloration is indicative of an inadequate oxygen supply in the blood. On the evidence admitted, there was a jury question as to Dr. Stroud's negligence.
Appellants offered the testimony of Dr. James Mayfield and Dr. George Mitchell, Jonesboro anesthesiologists, Dr. Sparks, also of Jonesboro, Dr. Charles W. Quimby, an anesthesiologist who practices and teaches at Vanderbilt University Hospital and Dr. Davis A. Miles, a Little Rock neurologist, who testified that he was familiar with the standards of practice in Jonesboro or similar communities. Dr. Quimby had taught and practiced anesthesiology for five years at the Medical Center in Little Rock, during which time he conducted statewide seminars relating


in the medical profession, due to availability of the Journal of the American Medical Association and other journals, drug company representatives and literature, closed circuit television, special radio networks, tape recorded digests of medical literature, medical seminars and opportunities for exchange of views between doctors from small towns and those from large cities where there are complexes of medical centers and modern facilities.
However desirable the attainment of this ideal may be, it remains an ideal. It was not shown in this case, and we are not convinced, that we have reached the time when the same postgraduate medical education, research and experience is equally available to all physicians, regardless of the community in which they practice. The opportunities for doctors in small towns, of which we have many,virtually non-existent, and that it has lost much of its significance today with the increasing number and excellence of Medical Schools, the free interchange of scientific information, and the consequent tendency to harmonize medical standards throughout the country. * * *
The North Carolina Supreme Court in Wiggins v. Piver, 276 N.C. 134, 171 S.E.2d 393 (1970), stated:
The "locality rule" (never recognized in England) had its origin in the very old and far away days when there were many little institutions which called themselves medical schools. Students were admitted who could show a high school diploma or furnish a certificate from a school principal that the bearer had completed the "equivalent" of a high school course of study. At the end of the course, he was given an M.D.


In Chicago, an undertaker tries to save teens from the streets — and is burying those he can’t

Spencer Leak stands in front of Leak & Sons, one of the oldest funeral homes on Chicago’s South Side (Photo: Jon Lowenstein/NOOR for Yahoo News)

CHICAGO — Spencer Leak Sr. has never known life without death.

From the moment he was old enough to remember, he was ambling around the funeral home his father founded here on Chicago’s South Side in 1933, when few places in the city were willing to bury blacks. Bodies of the dead, lifeless and still on gurneys and in coffins; the tears of anguished families struggling with loss — It was just a normal part of childhood for Leak, who came to view death as a shared andsays “taught him everything,” Leak has relied heavily on his Christian faith as he has continued the family business, viewing it as his own form of ministry. (He also had a parallel career in criminal justice, including four years as the head of the Cook County Jail). But lately, Leak’s relationship with death has grown considerably more fraught.

As the patriarch of Leak & Sons Funeral Home, one of the oldest funeral homes on the South Side, he has watched as his hometown have been ripped apart by unspeakable brutality in recent years, fueled by a dramatic spike in gun violence that Chicago officials have struggled to contain.

Last year, according to the Chicago Tribune, 781 people were killed — a massive jump over 2015, when there were 492 recorded


has taken a toll on Leak and his employees, who have been overwhelmed in making arrangements and also worried about their own safety. Though funerals used to be a moment of truce in Chicago’s bloody gang wars, some memorials have themselves grown violent in recent years, disrupted by brawls, stabbings and even shootings. Workers at other funeral homes have reportedly been shot at during processions, but Leak’s chapel has so far avoided any violent incidents. He employs armed security guards at his chapel here and at his second location on the West Side. And he works closely with Chicago police. He almost always schedules the funerals of suspected gang members at churches, which remain one of the few areas of refuge on the South Side.

“Praise be to God,the side of the road in the city of Chicago who have done nothing.”

Leak speaks with some perspective. He and his family have been on the front lines of history in Chicago for decades. His father, Rev. A.R. Leak, came to the city from Arkansas in 1927 as part of the “Great Migration,” in which blacks fled segregation in the South. He worked a series of odd jobs, including as a bathroom attendant at the 1933 World’s Fair. Taking the $500 he earned from that job and borrowing $500 from his parents, the elder Leak opened a funeral home on the South Side to serve Chicago’s growing black population, people who were often too poor to bury their loved ones or find cemeteries that would accept nonwhites.

In the


early 1960s, the early days of the civil rights movement, A.R. Leak helped desegregate the city’s all-white cemeteries. At the time, the family was close to Martin Luther King Jr. — the father marched with King on his march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965; while the son drove the civil rights leader around during his visits to Chicago. Some of these moments are memorialized in black-and-white photos that adorn the walls at Leak and Sons, where one of the three funeral chapels is named after King.

It was during the civil rights movement that Leak met his first wife, R&B singer Mavis Staples, to whom he was married for eight years. Shortly after, he met his second wife, Henrietta, the mother of his three sons, whonow assists in the family business, helping prepare bodies for funerals. The two have been married for 48 years.

Spencer Leak Sr. consults with his staff before beginning a day of funeral visitation and planning. (Photo: Jon Lowenstein/NOOR for Yahoo News)

While he continued working with his father at the funeral home, Leak got a master’s degree in criminal justice and held a series of state and local government corrections jobs until 2001 — including four years in the late 1980s as head of the Cook County Jail, one of the largest county jails in the country. He took charge of the family business full-time after his father died in 1993, and eventually retired from public service. But it’s hard for him to shake that history as he surveys what