attention can remain there. For jac there was one remaining desire, still running, that gave the idea that she existed. It was intermittent and not ultimately believed, but when it was running there certainly seemed to be a woman owning a desire. The desire was an insatiable craving for sex. The true nature of desire was yet to reveal itself. From Kerala to Tamil Nadu and the mountain of Arunachala. Attending satsang and finding words that would point to That which is beyond allowed the jigsaw of a visceral understanding to draw itself together so that it could be expressed, embodied and integrated. It was clear how Born to be Free would now become a book... there was, after all, a way to point towards Truth. Speaking fromshifted in 2010, when the Universal Orlando Resort opened The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Instead of going for standalone rides, Wizarding World was about recreating the experience of being in J.K. Rowling’s fictional universe. It had rides and rollercoasters, but for many guests the thrill was just walking the recreated streets of Hogsmeade, wand in one hand, Butterbeer in another. Universal has long boasted that its parks let you “ride the movies,” but the selling point for the Wizarding World could be that it allows you to live in the movies.

Wizarding World let visitors live in the movies

As Wizarding World expanded its Orlando footprint and spread to California and Japan, the opportunity was obvious: the chance to visit the fictional world of the franchise didn’t just bring


SANAA, Yemen -- Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Shiite rebels and their allies in Yemen destroyed historic houses on Friday in the centre of the capital, Sanaa, a UNESCO world heritage site. Rescue teams digging through the debris pulled the bodies of six civilians from under the rubble.

The bombing drew swift condemnation from the UN cultural agency, whose chief expressed sorrow at the loss of human life and the destruction of priceless architectural heritage.

Yemen's conflict has left millions of the Arab world's poorest nation in dire need of humanitarian assistance in just about everything -- from fuel to water, food, electricity and medical supplies -- as civilians are increasingly caught in the crossfire.

Also, early on Friday, random shelling killed 12 civilians in the southwestern city of Taiz, which witnessed someof the fiercest battles between rebels and southern fighters, witnesses and officials said.

In the Sanaa airstrikes, residents initially believed the warplanes had targeted a house occupied by a senior rebel commander, but officials and witnesses later said there were no Shiite rebels among the victims.

The impact of the missiles flattened at least three houses and caused cracks in surrounding buildings, which are cemented to one another, leaving large sections of the old city's district at the risk of collapse.

At a destroyed four-story building, an Associated Press reporter saw a pile of bricks, dust and wood mingled with clothes, kitchenware and water tanks, which are traditionally kept on roofs. An adjacent three-story building was split in half, wooden window frames dangling from the upper floors. Rescue workers were covered


with dust as they searched for victims.

Most of the old city's three-to-four-story buildings had been emptied out weeks ago, as their residents left in fear of the airstrikes. The Saudi-led coalition launched the campaign in March, in an effort to halt the power grab by Yemen's Shiite rebels, known as Houthis. UN-brokered peace talks are due to start end of the week in Geneva in an attempt to end the conflict.

Mohammed al-Raddni, a neighbour whose grandfather lives next door to one of the destroyed buildings, said those killed in Friday's airstrikes included three women and two men, one of whom was a doctor. A 16-year-old teenager remains under the rubble, said al-Raddni.

"What do they want from us? This is unfair. Why don't they go search for Houthis somewhereelse," shouted Zahwa Hammoud, an elderly woman dressed in traditional Yemeni clothing, as she looked at the damage.

Hammoud, one of few residents remaining in the neighbourhood, said there was a "deafening sound that made me feel my ears exploding" when the missiles struck.

A police car with a loudspeaker urged residents to stay away from the rubble.

Online activists posted photographs of the damaged parts of the old city of Sanaa, known as al-Qasimi. The old city dates back 2,500 years and is one of the most popular and historic tourist attractions in the Yemeni capital, famous for its decorated buildings made of packed earth with burnt brick towers.

UNESCO's general director condemned the attack that targeted "the world's oldest jewels of Islamic urban landscape" and expressing sorrow for the loss


of lives.

"I am shocked by the images of these magnificent many-storied tower-houses and serene gardens reduced to rubble," Irina Bokova said in the statement. She urged the warring parties to preserve the heritage of Yemen, which "bears the soul of the Yemeni people" and "belongs to all humankind."

UNESCO said that since the beginning of the conflict, several historic monuments across Yemen have suffered damage. It said that on June 9, the Ottoman era al-Owrdhi historical compound, outside the walls of Sanaa's old city, was severely damaged.

In recent days, airstrikes damaged an eight-century Great Dam of Marib, in eastern Yemen, as well as the ancient castle of al-Qahira in the southwestern city of Taiz and the Dhamar Museum, which houses thousands of artifacts, south of Sanaa, reported the state-runantiquities agency.

Arwa Osman, Yemen's former culture minister, said the damage to Sanaa's old city was "extremely painful." She told the AP that many of the archaeological sites were used by the Houthis and their allies as army barracks. The castle of al-Qahira was used by the Houthis to shell fighters in Taiz, she said.

"I can't blame one party but I blame all parties for causing so much damage to people and to our history," Osman added.

Other airstrikes on Friday targeted northern provinces of Saada and Amran, where the Houthis are in control, and Taiz -- the gateway to the southern port city of Aden.

Yemen's violence has killed 1,037 civilians, including 234 children, between mid-March and May. More than a million people have been displaced by the violence, according


those at the University of Sydney’s Confucius Institute, or business Chinese, such as those at the University of Melbourne’s Confucius Institute. The culture courses can vary too, from calligraphy to cooking to tai chi.

Many Confucius Institutes also run a range of activities and events for a general audience. The University of Adelaide’s Confucius Institute, for instance, runs a China Briefing Series – public lectures on political, economic and cultural developments in China.

Confucius Institutes might also organise translating and interpreting services, administer the Chinese language proficiency test, coordinate language competitions and arrange study tours to China.

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Some Confucius Institutes specialise in a certain area. The one at QUT, for instance, specialises in professional development for teachers and in supporting Chinese language and culture education in schools. The one atGriffith University focuses on language and culture training for tourism purposes. The Confucius Institute at RMIT University mainly teaches Chinese medicine.

These courses are short and aimed at the general public or specific audiences such as business people. For the most part Confucius Institutes don’t offer courses for credits that count towards a university degree. But institute staff may do some teaching in Chinese language courses offered by the university.

Read more: How should Australia respond to China's influence in our universities?

A student undertaking a university degree could do a course through an institute but this would not be part of their degree. The University of Queensland’s Confucius Institute, for example, offers free courses in Chinese language and culture to students and staff. Students could also participate in the activities


EU budget and a wider economic package. Parliament is calling on the European Commission to propose a €2 trillion recovery package, distributed mostly through grants (over which Parliament will maintain scrutiny) rather than loans, and warns against the presentation of misleading figures. The recovery package should provide real funding to help those hardest-hit, and focus on climate mitigation, digitalisation and a new health programme. The Commission has committed to propose a comprehensive recovery plan, along with revised 2021-2027 MFF proposals, on 27 May 2020. In the meantime, France and Germany have suggested a €500 billion 'recovery fund'.

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Plenary round-up – Brussels, May 2020

18-05-2020

The May 2020 plenary session was the third conducted with a majority of Members participating remotely, although more were present in Brussels than at the April session,called upon the European Commission to set up a recovery plan as part of the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework (MFF). Members heard Council and Commission statements on the conclusions of the video-conference meeting of the European Council on 23 April 2020 and the MFF, own resources and recovery plan. They also debated statements relating to: emergency legislation in Hungary and its impact on the rule of law and fundamental rights; on the use of contact-tracing apps; and on vaccines and therapeutics. Members also held a debate on the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration.

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Plenary round-up – Brussels, April 2020

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For the second time since the introduction of strict coronavirus containment measures, the European Parliament conducted its April plenary session with the majority of Members participating remotely, and used the


alternative voting procedure put in place by Parliament's Bureau for the March II session. This temporary voting procedure is available for use until 31 July 2020, unless extended by Bureau decision. As in March, the session focused on a number of urgent legislative proposals as well as ...

For the second time since the introduction of strict coronavirus containment measures, the European Parliament conducted its April plenary session with the majority of Members participating remotely, and used the alternative voting procedure put in place by Parliament's Bureau for the March II session. This temporary voting procedure is available for use until 31 July 2020, unless extended by Bureau decision. As in March, the session focused on a number of urgent legislative proposals as well as amendments to the EU's2020 budget to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Members also heard from the Presidents of the European Council and Commission on the coordination of the European response to the Covid-19 outbreak. Parliament then adopted a resolution setting out its position on the response to the pandemic and its consequences, ahead of the next video-conference meeting of EU Heads of State or Government, on 23 April. In this resolution, Members called for a massive economic recovery package, greater coordination on cross-border health threats, and condemned national emergency measures that restrict civil liberties.

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Plenary round-up – Brussels, March II 2020

27-03-2020

The need to observe strict sanitary measures, in view of the COVID-19 contagion, requires a flexible response from everyone. Consequently, the European Parliament organised and conducted its March II plenary session with


of the EU Solidarity Fund, almost unanimously, less than two weeks after the European Commission tabled its proposals. With the Council also agreed on the three texts, the measures can now be adopted in the coming days. Members also heard from the Commission and Council on the coordination of the European response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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European Union response to coronavirus threat

23-03-2020

Spreading swiftly from the initial November 2019 outbreak in China to pandemic proportions in just a few short months, COVID-19 has led to a need for stringent emergency public health measures to save lives across the world. Organising and providing healthcare in the European Union (EU) is a Member State prerogative and responsibility. However within the limits of its powers, the EU has nevertheless acted quickly to helpmethodology proposed by the Commission; a breach of Council Decision 2017/2074 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Venezuela; the current situation in Syria; on fighting against antisemitism, racism and hatred across Europe; as well as on the ongoing threat to the rule of law in Poland. Members also adopted a resolution on the illegal trade in companion animals. ...

Highlights of the February session included debates on a review of economic governance; the revised enlargement methodology proposed by the Commission; a breach of Council Decision 2017/2074 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Venezuela; the current situation in Syria; on fighting against antisemitism, racism and hatred across Europe; as well as on the ongoing threat to the rule of law in Poland. Members also


adopted a resolution on the illegal trade in companion animals. They debated the state of play in the EU's fight against money laundering (in light of the Luanda Leaks); the humanitarian situation of refugees at EU external borders; and the coronavirus outbreak. Members also voted on a resolution on EU priorities for the 64th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

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Plenary round-up – Brussels, January II 2020

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The highlights of the January II plenary session included discussion and the vote on the agreement on the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU, the ceremony to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and a debate on the von der Leyen Commission’s first work programme, for 2020. Parliament also debated the coronavirus outbreak, the humanitarian situation on Greek islands, theon ongoing hearings on the rule of law under Article 7(1) of the Treaty on European Union (EU) regarding Hungary and Poland; bushfires in Australia and climate change consequences; cross-border organised crime and its impact on free movement; a common charger for mobile radio equipment; the gender pay gap; and the 'Housing First' approach to address homelessness. Parliament also debated statements on the situation in Iran and Iraq, in Libya, and in Venezuela ...

January highlights included statements on ongoing hearings on the rule of law under Article 7(1) of the Treaty on European Union (EU) regarding Hungary and Poland; bushfires in Australia and climate change consequences; cross-border organised crime and its impact on free movement; a common charger for mobile radio equipment; the gender pay gap; and the


'Housing First' approach to address homelessness. Parliament also debated statements on the situation in Iran and Iraq, in Libya, and in Venezuela following the illegal election of the new National Assembly Presidency and Bureau. Members voted on annual reports on implementation of the common foreign and security, and foreign and defence policies. Members debated citizens' rights provisions in the UK Withdrawal Agreement. They also voted on a resolution on the European Green Deal, following their debate in December's special session – on the day on which the Commission had itself adopted and presented its plans. In addition, His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan addressed a formal sitting of Parliament.

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Plenary round-up – Strasbourg, December 2019

20-12-2019

The December plenary session highlights included the election of the European Ombudsman; commemoration ofthe 10th anniversary of the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights becoming legally binding; and the award of the 2019 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Parliament adopted positions on the rule of law in Malta, following the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, and on public discrimination and hate speech against LGBTI people, including LGBTI-free zones. It also debated statements ...

The December plenary session highlights included the election of the European Ombudsman; commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights becoming legally binding; and the award of the 2019 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Parliament adopted positions on the rule of law in Malta, following the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, and on public discrimination and hate speech


against LGBTI people, including LGBTI-free zones. It also debated statements by the Vice-President of the European Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR/VP) on the humanitarian situation of the Uyghur in China and in Venezuela and Nicaragua, on the migration and refugee crisis, and on the violent crackdown on recent protests in Iran. Debates took place, inter alia, on Commission and Council statements on: the 30th anniversary of the Romanian revolution of December 1989; the post-2020 EU disability strategy; the COP25 outcome; animal welfare conditions during transport to third countries; and the US Trade Representative's announcement on France's digital service tax. Parliament also voted on appointments to the Executive Board of the European Central Bank.

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Plenary round-up – Strasbourg, November II 2019

29-11-2019

The November IIplenary session highlights included the vote on the new European Commission, agreement on the 2020 budget, and Parliament's declaration of a climate emergency. Parliament adopted positions on preparation for COP25, and on the Istanbul Convention, and also debated statements by the Vice-President of the European Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR/VP) on Eastern Neighbourhood developments, on the situation in Israel and Palestine, ...

The November II plenary session highlights included the vote on the new European Commission, agreement on the 2020 budget, and Parliament's declaration of a climate emergency. Parliament adopted positions on preparation for COP25, and on the Istanbul Convention, and also debated statements by the Vice-President of the European Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR/VP)


on Eastern Neighbourhood developments, on the situation in Israel and Palestine, and on the situation in the Middle East, including the crises in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon. Debates took place, inter alia, on Commission and Council statements on: the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution; on the EU response to the impact of extreme weather events; on discrimination and hate speech against LGBTI people; on the World Trade Organization Appellate Body; as well as on the protection of forest and environmental defenders in the EU. The 2019 Lux Prize, which tells the story of a young woman's feminist struggle in conservative North Macedonian society, was awarded to God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija, directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska.                                                          Page 2

Appeals concluded that he did not provide sufficient evidence of hardship. We lack
jurisdiction to review his challenge to those discretionary determinations, so we dismiss
his petition in part. We deny the remainder of the petition.

       Several years after entering the United States, Perez-Castillo married and later
had a daughter. In 2018, he was arrested for domestic-violence assault in the second
degree, and his wife obtained a


In the first few decades of the early 1900s, the United States was postcard crazy with thousands of cards exchanged daily. Many were simply a form of “self-congratulation,” often illustrating signs of development and progress. This program focuses on Nebraska postcards, specifically exaggeration postcards, cards that were not only used for communication and entertainment, but also intended to promote and “sell” Nebraska to a larger audience.

Dr. H. Jason Combs is Chair and Professor of Geography at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, M.S. degree from Southwest Missouri State University, and B.S. from Northwest Missouri State University.Rio de Janeiro: An official media bus at the Rio Olympics has been hit by projectiles travelling between one of the Games' four main competition zones and the main press hub.

The incident occurred on Tuesday night in the notoriously high crime area of Deodoro, where a bullet was fired into a press centre at the equestrian on Saturday.

Deodoro is about 25 kilometres from the main media centre and is hosting hockey, equestrian, women's basketball and rugby sevens competition.

A government official has told Fairfax Media the media transport bus was hit by stones, but claims windows were shattered by gunfire are being investigated.


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identification reform, and now 18 states have done so.

These measures are part of an increasing trend and desire on the part of law enforcement to have in place proven best practices that will protect misidentification. The phenomenon played a role in nearly 71 percent of the nation’s 343 such cases.

In Nebraska, as in the jurisdictions cited above, the changes in state law were the culmination of collaboration between innocence organizations, law enforcement entities and lawmakers. As Hightower and Bushnell wrote:

Recognizing the importance of protecting the innocent and detecting the actual perpetrators, the Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, and the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center set up training for officers and distributed materials to help agencies adopt best practices. In addition, Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks (Lincoln)to accept made it extremely political, knowing how the invitation played out,” said Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia and a frequent critic of the White House. Mr. Manchin was one of 10 Democrats who signed a letter agreeing not to vote on a sanctions bill until after the March 24 deadline to have a framework of an agreement in place with the Iranians.


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Two pianists, talking and remembering

Here’s an excerpt from Summit. Daniel Fulton, our hero, is a handsome, eccentric pianist who has left the concert stage, for reasons having something to do with the Russian psychic Valentina Borisova. He is visiting the Russian emigré pianist Dmitri Khorashev in his New York City apartment to discuss the recital he has agreed to give in Moscow — where, he believes, he will meet Valentina again.

The doorman seated at the security console did not like the looks of the scruffy, unshaven man with the cloth cap pulled down over his eyes. He was wearing a tattered tweed jacket and ancient stained chinos, and he held a battered briefcase in his large left hand. He looked like a rummy who retained some pretensionsceramic Statues of Liberty and autographed baseballs. It was all junk to Fulton, but it was junk, he realized, because he was so used to it; it was part of the texture of his life, like golden arches and pepperoni pizza and Muzak. To someone like Khorashev, such things were symbols of what this new world had given him.

Fulton had come across only one reminder in the apartment of the world Khorashev had left behind. It was a doll that sat in the corner of a bookshelf in sight of Khorashev’s piano. Fulton had picked it up once, and discovered that inside the doll was another doll, which in turn had its own doll inside it—and so on, he assumed, but Khorashev had taken it away from him


doll and thought of Daniel Fulton in Moscow, at the conservatory. Thought of his own days at the conservatory, practicing till his bones ached, wandering through the bookstores of the Arbat and buying dirty glasses of kvass from street vendors, picking mushrooms in the countryside, talking and drinking and laughing all night in some wretched student flat, young and happy and stupid. Thought of the glorious war, beating back the Fascists from the city’s very suburbs, the giddy, insane pride he had felt in his motherland—a pride that covered a multitude of sins.

Sins. Thought of the farm that his family had once owned, until the thugs came and dragged off his father and beat his mother while he cowered beneath the bed.

Thought of the friends who disappeared andwere not spoken of again.

Thought of Zhdanov and his toady Khrennikov sitting in judgment of Shostakovich and Prokofiev and the rest, geniuses whose boots they were not fit to lick, throttling the musical spirit of the nation with their fat fingers. All to please the Great Leader, who sat in the Kremlin, invincible in his ignorance and his power, and destroyed lives with a twitch of his mustache.

Thought of the fear that permeated his life like a fog. What can I play? Who can I speak to? What can I speak about? The fear that finally made him leave, impulsively, the first chance he had—a drowning man reflexively gasping for air.

He had left, and now he would never return.

His fingers idly played the three descending whole tones that


Center. He gazed across Fifth Avenue at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, and after a while he crossed, making his way past the pretzel vendors to stand in front of its huge doors. Saints stared out at him from the doors, recognizing him, daring him. He went inside.

The back of the cathedral bustled with tourists. There were boxes asking him to donate money for peace, for the poor, for earthquake relief, for the maintenance of the cathedral. This wasn’t what he wanted. He moved forward up a side aisle.

A wizened old man in a shapeless suit grabbed Fulton’s arm and gestured at his head. Terrified, Fulton tried to break free, and then realized he was supposed to take off his cap. He obeyed. The man nodded, appeased, and wandered off.Fulton slid into a pew.

Now what? He half knelt, half leaned back against the seat and looked up at the high, vaulted ceiling. At the far end of his pew, a man in a business suit was reading the Times. A couple of rows in front of him, a black teenager with a Mohawk knelt, motionless, his face in his hands.

Now he was supposed to pray.

He remembered asking his mother once about religion. She frowned at him with the perpetual frown that seemed to be the natural state of her features. “Religion,” she said, “is the last refuge of a failure. Only those who cannot succeed in this life need the promise of another one. Go practice.”

He had practiced.

His mother was a high school teacher in Evanston, Illinois.


That was not her idea of success, but success can also be experienced vicariously. She had put her husband through graduate school and helped him become a professor at Northwestern. And when Daniel came along and started picking out melodies on the old living room upright at the age of two, the course of the rest of her life was clear.

She could not understand how someone could throw away his success like a pair of old socks. It was her success too, after all, that he was throwing away. And how could he explain it to her, when he didn’t really understand it himself? They didn’t speak anymore, and Fulton didn’t know what to do about that.

A couple of middle-aged women were staring at him intently. He burieddecided to quit. Perhaps it was inevitable that his departure and his return were so intertwined, like voices in a Bach fugue.

Perhaps the answers are there, he thought. Yes, he was beginning to believe that they were. And that belief was better than nothing.

He looked up, gripping the back of the pew in front of him. The women were gone; the black teenager hadn’t moved. He could feel his fingers moving slightly against the hard wood. He stared at them as he listened to the music in his mind.

They were flying through the intricacies of Les Adieux‘s third movement: The Return.

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I suspect that Gould was at least slightly putting us on when he said that Orlando Gibbons was his favorite composer.


LIGO, SU physicists detect 1st neutron star collision

Duncan Brown, Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics; Stefan Ballmer, Associate Professor of Physics; John Liu, Vice President of Reserach and Jaysin Lord, host a panel discussion. These men represented the Syracuse Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) team who were apart of the discovery of the collision of neutron stars on August 17th. Photo by Deandre Curtis

Duncan Brown, Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics; Stefan Ballmer, Associate Professor of Physics; John Liu, Vice President of Reserach and Jaysin Lord, host a panel discussion. These men represented the Syracuse Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) team who were apart of the discovery of the collision of neutron stars on August 17.

Syracuse University Scientist reveal a discovery in the astronomy field during a conferenceat the Goldstein Auditorium. This discovery marks the first time scientists have detected the collision of neutron stars. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a Joint project involving scientists at MIT, Caltech and Syracuse in addition to many other institutions around the world dedicated to the detection of gravitational waves. The Syracuse LIGO Team was amping the first wave of scientists alerted to the possible detection of the collision and fixed a glitch to help the system locate the source of the explosion. Photo by Deandre Curtis

Chancellor Kent Syverud, provides remarks for attendees of a conference to announce a discovery in the astronomy field. This discovery marks the first time scientists have detected the collision of neutron stars. Photo by Deandre Curtis

Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly,


provides opening remarks for attendees of a conference to announce a discovery in the astronomy field. This discovery marks the first time scientists have detected the collision of neutron stars. Photo by Deandre Curtis

Photo by Deandre Curtis

Duncan Brown, Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics; Stefan Ballmer, Associate Professor of Physics; John Liu, Vice President of Reserach and Jaysin Lord, host a panel discussion. These men represented the Syracuse Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) team who were apart of the discovery of the collision of neutron stars on August 17th. Photo by Deandre Curtis

The announcement was made via simulcast in Goldstein Auditorium, where attendees listened to NSF Director France Córdova and Dr. Dave Reitze speak from Washington, D.C.

On Aug. 17, scientists “heard” gravitational waves given off by the collisionand Gloucester subregions and for the Clarence-Moreton bioregion.

Bioregional assessments in the Clarence-Moreton bioregion and the Arckaringa and Pedirka subregions

The Bioregional Assessment Programme has evaluated the likely level of coal seam gas (CSG) and coal mining development in each bioregion to inform the level of assessment required to meet the needs of stakeholders, including government regulators, natural resource management organisations, industry and the community. In our June 2015 issue we outlined the different levels of assessment being undertaken in the Gwydir, Central West and Cooper subregions. In this issue, we explain the assessments that are being undertaken in the Clarence-Moreton bioregion and in the Arckaringa and Pedirka subregions.

Clarence-Moreton bioregion

The Clarence-Moreton bioregion spans north-east NSW and south-east Queensland. Coal deposits in this bioregion are found in a number of different


geological units, but economic coal deposits are mainly found in the Walloon, Ipswich and Nymboida Coal Measures.

The bioregion only has one operating coal mine, the Jeebropilly Mine in south-east Queensland, which is due to close in 2017, and no coal is produced from the NSW part of the bioregion. There are no proposals to develop new coal mines in the bioregion, though some exploration is occurring west of Ipswich in Queensland and south-west of Grafton in NSW.

At present, there is no commercial CSG production occurring in the bioregion, though some exploration activity is being undertaken in both Queensland and NSW.

Within the Clarence-Moreton bioregion, the Richmond River catchment near Casino in NSW appears to be the most likely for any CSG to proceed. At present, there is a singleproposed CSG development for this part of the bioregion, though it is yet to undergo an environmental impact statement process and does not have regulatory approval.

The Programme considers it unlikely that any new coal or CSG development would occur in the Queensland part of the Clarence-Moreton bioregion in the near future. This has been surmised following an assessment of the coal and CSG resources in the bioregion, which involved compiling and reviewing information on existing and potential future developments. The Programme consulted closely with stakeholders as part of this process, including state and local government agencies, natural resource management organisations and industry groups.

Consequently, the Clarence-Moreton bioregional assessment will focus on the Richmond River catchment near Casino NSW, which is a much smaller geographic area than initially expected.

The Programme


contains thick, extensive coal measures that contain a number of coal deposits of potential economic significance. These coal seams lie deep beneath the Great Artesian Basin. Given the depth of the resource, there are no current proposals for coal mining in this subregion and future proposals are considered unlikely.

Exploration work has been undertaken in this area for both conventional and unconventional gas. Evaluation has suggested that the coal seams in this subregion are not mature enough to generate significant CSG volumes, making commercial production unlikely in the near future.

Pedirka subregion

The Pedirka subregion is in the Lake Eyre Basin bioregion and is located within South Australia and the Northern Territory. While there are coal resources in the

Most of the coal in the Pedirka subregion appears to be either tooMore information

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The history of Bathurst Campus dates back to 1895 with the establishment of the Bathurst Experiment Farm.

The Bathurst Teachers' College was established on the site of the Bathurst Experiment Farm. The first students commenced their training on the 12 March 1951, although the College was not officially opened until the 9 November 1951.

In 1989, the Charles Sturt University Act brought together the Riverina Murray Institute of Higher Education and the Mitchell College of Advanced Education to form Charles Sturt University. Bathurst Campus became one of the three foundation campuses of CSU along with Albury-Wodonga and Wagga Wagga campuses.

A ceremony was held on the 13 May 1991 to mark the naming of The Grange which was attended by Captain Anthony Napier Sturt, the great grandson of Captain Charles


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Corfu old Town is a combination of the medieval and the modern style. The old and New Fortress are breathtaking, taking a stroll in town you will also see Espianade Square and the Palace of St. Michael and St.George, which once was a home to British rulers. You will also have the opportunity to walk the narrow streets and see the St. Spiridon church n the heart of Corfu, and last but not least, walking through the Liston which was once open only to aristocrats’.
595 F.3d 868 (2010)
Ronald D. MURRAY, Jr., Appellant,
v.
Jason LENE, in his official and individual capacity; Christine Steele, in her official and individual capacity; Director of the Missouri Department of Social Services, in his or her individual capacity; Adair County Missouri Sheriff, in his official capacity in the State of Missouri; Board of County Commissioners for Adair County, Missouri; Kayela Vittetoe, in her individual capacity, Appellees.
No. 09-1198.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: December 17, 2009.
Filed: February 23, 2010.
*869 Stephen Sherman Wyse, argued, Columbia, MO, for appellant.
Christopher Joseph Quinn, AAG, Mark Zoole, on the brief, St. Louis, MO, for appellee.
Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, ARNOLD, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Ronald Murray brought an action for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Missouri law against the director of the


scheduled to stay in Iowa with Mr. Murray from May 29 until July 10, 2005, at which time Mr. Murray was obligated to return the children to Ms. Vittetoe in Missouri. During the visit, however, the children made allegations of sexual abuse against Ms. Vittetoe and her husband. When Mr. Murray relayed these allegations to an Iowa social worker, the social worker contacted the Missouri Division of Family Services (MDFS) (a division of DSS) to investigate. Ms. Steele, an MDFS employee, helped construct and implement a safety plan that provided that Ms. Vittetoe and her husband could not contact the children until an MDFS case worker deemed it appropriate. The children were to stay with Ms. Vittetoe's parents during the course of the investigation. Ms. Vittetoe agreed toJanuary 6, 1960, at about 10 A.M. the plaintiff, 26 years of age, purchased two cups of coffee at a tavern a half block from the stairs leading to the basement shoe shop of the defendant Kramer, and proceeded to carry them, one in each hand, to that shop. As he went down the steps, he slipped and fell, severely injuring his wrist when a broken cup pierced it. The weather that day was cool, but the sun was shining. Five days before, there had been a two-inch snowfall and, since the temperature from January 1 to January 6 had ranged from 17 below zero to 35 degrees above, the latter being reached on January 6, there was still over two and one-half inches of snow on the


ground on that date. The streets and sidewalks, however, were clear.
The two-story building involved herein, known as the Commercial Bank Building, in Carroll, Iowa, was owned by the estate of Adda Beverly. Arthur A. Neu, executor, was named a defendant herein and will be referred to as defendant owner. Along the east side of this building appear several stair wells guarded by iron railings, each leading to basement business establishments. The defendant Kramer, a tenant, maintained one of these shops. In order to reach it, one must go down two steps from the sidewalk, turn left, and go down eight steps some four feet wide to the doorway leading to Kramer's Shoe Shop. On the east or outside wall of the stair well was a hand rail, andon the inside about half way down was a window to admit light into the shop.
The record discloses there is a ledge on the second story of this building extending out over these stair wells about a foot wide, which extends the length of the building. There are no eave troughs or canopies over the stair wells, so that when any ice and snow accumulated on the roof and ledge and started to melt, water drips onto the steps below. If it is sufficiently cold, the water in the stair well will freeze creating a hazard to anyone attempting to descend or transcend the stairs.
It is plaintiff's contention that he produced substantial evidence to prove the hazardous condition as it existed on January 6, 1960, when he fell,


by the County Council and Volusia's five coastal cities in order to be effective.

A draft of Volusia's ordinance received a cautious thumbs-up from Blair Witherington, a biologist with the Department of Environmental Protection's Florida Marine Research Institute and the state's leading authority on sea-turtle lighting.

``I should offer some laurels because there's many places where the ordinance has been improved,'' Witherington said Monday. ``The most important item is that the ordinance still does not include Daytona Beach and Daytona Beach Shores. I would have to list that as a drawback.''

Volusia officials hope it's only a temporary drawback.

Steve Kintner, Volusia's director of environmental management services, said he wasn't sure when the county would approach cities with the proposed resolution. The planning board or the County Council might make changes, andit,'' Daytona Beach Mayor Bud Asher said. ``But my No. 1 concern is to protect the health, welfare and safety of our residents and visitors.''

The ordinance would help protect Volusia and its cities from legal liability for sea-turtle deaths. A lawsuit filed three years ago under the Endangered Species Act sought to dim lights and ban driving on the county's beaches during the May-to-October nesting season.

The county continues to fight that legal battle. It had been seeking a permit that would allow some turtle deaths due to lighting, but representatives of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told the county last month in a private meeting that a permit wouldn't be a permanent solution.

Kintner said Volusia's five-year plan calls for buildings and streetlights in the unincorporated portions of


Shattering Records at the Social Olympics

August 7, 2012

Shattering Records at the Social Olympicsby Rose de Fremery

We are just over halfway through the London 2012 Olympics, dubbed the Social Olympics, and some intriguing data is coming out of London as to the unprecedented volume of online activity surrounding these Games. As expected, a great many viewers have turned online to receive their event highlights and news coverage in real time. Analysts have predicted that throughout the course of the London 2012 Olympics, a staggering one billion people worldwide will stream events live, check medal results, and receive updates through digital means.

On the first day of the Olympics, ten million U.S. fans streamed events online through NBC, as compared to five million during the Beijing Games in 2008. Meanwhile, backmodes of interrupted services on the customer or user. Abrupt or large changes in the environmental temperature of a conditional space are very undesirable from the standpoint of the customer.
Other prior art methods of load shedding include the timed resetting of thermostats to a higher setting in the summer during the air-conditioning season and to a lower setpoint during the heating season for a specified period or number of hours during the peak demand part of the day. This step change does result in a significant energy savings over a long period but yields only a relatively small power reduction at the peak load time. It represents an abrupt change in the temperature of the environment which is sensed by the inhabitants who are required to endure uncomfortable


executive toldAd Age. Eventually, the company said, Abercrombie may open more than a hundred stores there. Hong Kong, where J. Crew opened two stores in May, has become one of the most desirable retail markets worldwide.

There may be a limit to the number of U.S. companies that can keep growing in Asia.Luxury sales have slowed recently in Hong Kong, and too many stores may now be competing for the same shoppers. Still, for some American brands that have become passé here, Asian customers—many of them newly wealthy and less fatigued by ubiquitous logos—are viewed as a second chance. Juicy Couture, known for its jaunty velour tracksuits a decade ago, is closing all its U.S. stores but expanding in Asia; later, it hopes to relaunch at home with anew image.

New Asian millionaires, along with their counterparts in Russia and the Middle East, have also revived the couture business. At Chanel’s haute-couture show in Paris last week, the front row included the Korean pop singer CL, the Korean-Australian actress Jung Ryeo-won, the Taiwanese actress Gwei Lun-Mei, and Angelica Cheung, the editor-in-chief of Vogue China, whose dark bob mimics Anna Wintour’s. (Vogue China is published by Condé Nast, the New Yorker’s parent company, in partnership with China Pictorial.) “Our sizes typically run big, and the Asia market runs small,” a J. Crew spokeswoman said. She noted that the triple zero—available online and in the Hong Kong stores—makes up the smallest proportion of its sales.

Critics of the triple zero have reason to be sensitive about the issue of size


a barrier to an agreement on arbitration. Grassley has concerns about the plan, his aides said.

The White House-Pelosi talks so far consist of staff-level discussions and aren't negotiations, according to Henry Connelly, Pelosi's deputy communications director. "House Democrats promised the American people we'd take bold action to lower prescription drug prices, and that's what we're going to do," he told POLITICO Playbook.

The White House may be trying to use its conversations with Pelosi's office to send a signal to Republican lawmakers that they need to be willing to push further on drug pricing. Many of the White House ideas on drug pricing — like tying the costs of physician-administered drugs to the lower prices paid overseas — fall outside the market-based approaches favored by Republican lawmakers on Capitolanyway.

The phrase dates back to 1979

The tradition started rather organically, chosen by fans as a day to celebrate their love for the Star Wars movies and expanded universe. ("May the Fourth" rhymes with "May the Force," and you can figure out the rest out from there.) Grassroots fandom perpetuated the pun, until the first large organized event for the day took place on May 4th, 2011 in the Toronto Underground Cinema. Screenings of the movies were accompanied by a costume contest judged by local radio hosts and TV stars, but while it may have been the first commercial Star Wars Day gathering, it certainly wasn’t the first time people had connected the day with the films.

That goes all the way back to 1979, just two years after the


original Star Wars hit theater screens. Britain’s Conservative Party, celebrating the election of new Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, put out a full-page ad in the London Evening News at the time which reportedly read, "May the Fourth Be With You, Maggie. Congratulations."

Thatcher, who officially became Prime Minister on May 4th of that year, never addressed the connection publicly, but the pun would be brought up again in British politics 15 years later. On May 4th, 1994, UK politician Harry Cohen mentioned the phrase in a House of Commons discussion about national defense, calling it a "very bad joke" before saying his researcher that made it deserved to be fired. Weirdly, British politicians seemed to rank just behind Star Wars obsessives in their affection for the pun, continuing toinvoke it into the 21st century. (In 2012, London Mayor Boris Johnson dropped the phrase to close out his re-election acceptance speech.)

Disney created the modern 'Star Wars' Day

But it wasn’t until Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm that Star Wars Day was cemented as the kind of phenomenon we know today: half earnest celebration, half shameless marketing bonanza. Disney made it a bona fide event during its first full year in charge of the franchise, inviting fans to its theme parks to party with besuited characters from the movies and watch a Star Wars-themed fireworks show and dance party. It also began the tradition of discounting Star Wars merchandise, a precedent that so many other companies followed that the official Star Wars site now tracks them all like a Dark


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the age of menopause. We find force in the contention of the learned counsel for the appellant that even if the sexual intercourse was forceful it was not forcible and contrary to the wishes and consent of the deceased,” read the judgement.

In December 2010, the victim was found dead inside her house in Majnu ka Tila along with an inebriated Achey Lal by a girl at whose house the victim worked. Achey Lal was arrested and eventually sentenced to 10 years of rigourous imprisonment. The post-mortem of the victim revealed that she has sustained injuries on her vagina, and traces of alcohol were found on her, too.

Lawyer-activist Vrinda Grover questioned the use of the word ‘menopause’. “On what grounds did the court has arrive on the judgement thatNaveen Andrews Net Worth

Impressive eyes actor, Naveen Andrew is known as a British actor who has announced his net worth to be around $10 million. His net worth entirely depends upon his acting and few of the modeling assignments too. His name is listed amongst highest paid celebrity that makes him one of the richest celebrities of the trend. He has always been into headlines for affairs with older ladies and for his appreciable performance.

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“As they approached the boat, they saw an elderly man partially lying in the water. They immediately called 911 and pulled the man out of the water,” according to a CDCR report on the incident.

The officer and his friend freed the injured man, who was trapped in the water with his leg stuck on the boat.

The victim’s boat motor had failed, leaving the boat to the mercy of the wind and current, allowing it to end up on a small island. While trying to get out of the boat, the elderly man tripped and fell. His leg had gotten caught between the boat’s closed canvas top and the transom. When the officer found him, the man was lying in the water between the boat and


way back.”

The injured man called his wife while Officer Sanders’ friend rocked the boat to get it off the rocks. Meanwhile, Officer Sanders had attached a line to tow the boat back to shore.

Sanders said it was dark by the time they returned to shore, probably close to 9:30 at night. As they approached the shore, they saw the man’s family waiting. A state park ranger arrived a short time later.

“The man was transported to the hospital for treatment of hypothermia, an injured ankle and a lacerated arm. Following the incident, the man had a mild heart attack caused by the stress. He has since completely recovered from his injuries,” according to the report. The incident happened in June 2016.

“His family was really concerned about him. They keptThe German government opposes extending residency rights for foreign victims of German anti-immigrant violence, according to an article set for publication in Friday's edition of the "Tagesspiegel" newspaper. The Interior Ministry made the government's position clear following a request for information from the Green deputy Volker Beck.

"For reasons of general prevention," it is "fundamentally alien" for the German legal system to make exceptions to the law based on the "alleged culprits or as reparation for the victim," the Interior Ministry wrote, according to "Tagesspiegel." Officials fear that it would create a "privilege for foreign victims of right-wing violence over other, foreign as well as German, victims of violence."

Beck said he was not convinced by the government's response, "Tagesspiegel" reported. He noted that residency permits for victims of racist


BOSTON (Reuters) - Meb Keflezighi on Monday became the first U.S. male athlete to win the Boston Marathon in three decades as onlookers chanted “USA! USA!,” an emotional performance in a city still recovering from last year’s fatal bombing attack.

Keflezighi, who was born in Eritrea but is now a U.S. citizen, pulled ahead of a pack of elite African runners a little more than halfway into the race and held off a late challenge by Kenya’s Wilson Chebet to finish in two hours, eight minutes and 37 seconds.

Among the women, Kenya’s Rita Jeptoo notched her second consecutive win of the race, smashing a 12-year course record with a blistering time of two hours, 18 minutes and 57 seconds, reeling in American Shalane Flanagan, who had set a punishingfrom New Jersey to watch her husband run. “It represents the strength of our country.”

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Some 35,755 runners from 96 countries competed in the second-largest field in history for the 118th running of the Boston Marathon.

Among the women runners, Buzunesh Deba of Ethiopia was second and compatriot Mare Dibaba third. They too turned in faster performances than the previous course record of 2:20:43 set in 2002 by Margaret Okayno of Kenya.

Among the male runners, Wilson Chebet of Kenya finished second and Frankline Chepkwony, also of Kenya, was third.

Ethiopia’s Lelisa Desisa, last year’s winner, did not finish, race officials said.

No American athlete has stood atop the podium on Boston’s Boylston Street, not far from the site of last year’s bombing, since 1985 when Lisa Larsen-Weidenbach of


Michigan won the women’s race. The drought has been longer for U.S. men: Greg Meyer of Massachusetts won in 1983.

Race organizers expanded the field by some 9,000 runners this year, to allow the roughly 5,000 athletes who had been left on the course last year when the twin pressure-cooker bombs went off near the finish line another chance to compete.

One of the two brothers who are accused of the bombing died after a shootout with police a few days after the blasts while the other, 20-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is awaiting trial. If convicted, he may face execution.Disclaimer: All of the characters in this story belong to Nintendo, as well as the term Super Smash Brothers.

One day in the gigantic metropolis of Nintendo City, within the center of the high-technoligical city was the small private park of Oval Park, and within the very center of it was the location of the Super Smash Brothers Mansion, where our friendly neighborhood Yoshi decided to play some good ol' fashioned pong with Donkey Kong. As he did, Yoshi noticed Charizard nearby, who was holding a small, brown box...

"Hey Charizard? What's with the box?" Yoshi asked as he ran over to Charizard and examined the box.

Charizard rolled his eyes. "Well, it's something that I got as a special present, so yeah." He replied, not thinking of a rather good


reply.

Donkey Kong then approached Charizard, snatching the box and attempting to look inside. "Oooh! I wonder what's in he-"

"DON'T LOOK AT IT!" Charizard bellowed angrily, whacking Donkey Kong with a swing from his powerful tail, which sent the giant ape crashing into the west side of the Super Smash Brothers Mansion's exterior. Donkey Kong moaned in pain as he fell down to the ground, while Charizard huffed and went into the mansion, taking alone with him his box.

Yoshi rubbed the back of his head. "Yeesh, he sure is protective," The green Yoshisaurus pondered to himself, before running to Donkey Kong and trying to wake his friend up.

Charizard went upstairs, and headed to his room. He whistled merrily as he held the box, until a few minutes later ashe approached his room, he bumped into Peach.

Peach screamed, before getting up to her feet and looking at Charizard, blushing a bit and apologizing, "Oh! I'm so sorry, Charizard, I didn't mean to-"

"Meh, it's all right," Charizard forgave, patting Peach on the shoulder. "Anyway, I have to go in."

Peach smiled and nodded, until the box caught her attention. "Hey, what's with the box?" The blonde princess asked, cooing as she poked at the box.

Charizard let out a sigh, and he pushed Peach out of the way, entering his room. "Never mind, Peach! Just leave me and my secret box alone!" He slammed the door shut, in Peach's face.

Peach gasped, and she growled, folding her arms. "Fine! See if I care about your stupid box! Humph!" She huffed and


annoy you! I already annoyed Jigglypuff to death, and now it's time to annoy you!" He chuckled some more.

Charizard continued to fume and fume. "Squirtle...please...I'm trying...to enjoy...myself..." He felt his sudden urge to kill Squirtle right now, just so he could be alone with his box.

Squirtle only laughed. "Well, too bad for you, Charizard, cause I'm here to stay!" He then squirted a small jet stream of water into Charizard's face.

Charizard dropped his box, and stood up. The fearsome, fire-type dragon Pokemon bellowed angrily and started firing fire-type attacks from his mouth, before he finally blasted Squirtle out of the room and sent the water turtle Pokemon crashing into the other wall of the hallway with a powerful blast of his Flamethrower attack. Charizard sighed, and he thengrabbed his box and flew upwards, going through the ceiling and the attic, and continuing upwards, until he finally broke through the attic's ceiling and ended up on the rooftop of the Super Smash Brothers Mansion.

Charizard let out a sigh of relief. "Finally! Alone and in peace..." He looked at his box, and smiled again. "Now...as for my box..." As he slowly started to open the box, the very box that he held so dearly slowly...

"Hey Charizard!" Silver The Hedgehog stated as he and the gray colored Robotic Operating Buddy, R.O.B., appeared in front of Charizard. "We just wanted to know about something."

"Yeah. Do you think taking what amounts to filler and actually giving them some form of substance is a good thing?" R.O.B stated as he moved


"Italy has become a country where blacks are shot on the street"

* Shooting came a day after a national election

* Africans targeted last month by shooter in Macerata

* League and 5-Star promised mass deportations in campaign (Recasts to add Tuesday protest, details)

By Silvia Ognibene

FLORENCE, Italy, March 6 (Reuters) - African immigrants and Italians protested in Florence for a second day on Tuesday, chanting "no more racism" and criticising the anti-immigrant League party for stoking racial tensions after an Italian man shot dead a Senegalese street vendor.

Police said Roberto Pirrone on Monday fired six pistol shots at close range, killing Idy Dienec as he sold leather bags, umbrellas and trinkets on a bridge in the Tuscan city, one of Italy's most popular tourist destinations.

Later, dozens of immigrants marched throughthe historic centre of Florence, knocking over trash bins, motor scooters and large flower pots.

On Tuesday, some 500 African immigrants and Italians staged another protest on the bridge where the shooting took place.

Tensions ran high as 100 people approached riot police wielding shields and batons, but there were no clashes. Florence Mayor Dario Nardella told protesters to remain calm, as did senior members of Florence's large Senegalese community.

The shooting came a day after a parliamentary election in which politicians, especially the anti-immigrant League, often portrayed migrants as criminals and called for mass deportations.

On Tuesday, protesters took aim at League leader Matteo Salvini, singing, "Salvini vaffanculo (f*** off)".

Police told Reuters on Tuesday the murder was not racially motivated, citing testimony Pirrone gave to investigators after his arrest. Pirrone, who


had a license to carry a weapon for sport, was suicidal and lashed out in a state of confusion, investigators said.

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But the timing of the attack has raised suspicions among Florence's Senegalese community.

In the election, the League became the second-biggest party in parliament.

"The fact that the elections went the way they did shows the kind of mood the country is in," said Pape Diaw, a representative of the Senegalese community. "Italy has become a country where blacks are shot on the street."

Last month a man with neo-Nazi sympathies and ties to the League opened fire on African migrants in the city of Macerata, wounding six before he was captured.

Claudio Borghi, the League's economics chief, said on Tuesday his was not a racist party, citing the electionof Toni Iwobi, a Nigerian immigrant, as a senator on Sunday.

"I'd like to point out that the first black senator in the history of the Italian republic is one of ours," Borghi told Reuters. Iwobi, the party's spokesman on immigration, has been a League member for 25 years.

Dienec, the 54-year-old victim of Monday's attack, had legally lived in Italy for many years, police said.

More than 600,000 boat migrants have arrived on Italian shores in the past four years, making immigration a top concern for voters during the campaign.

The League and the 5-Star Movement, which emerged as the largest party in the vote, both have promised to ramp up deportations of irregular migrants.

Monday's shooting is not the first targeting African vendors in Florence. Six years ago, an Italian right-wing


of the blood vessel stub (i.e., perpendicular to the axis of the vessel) to which it has been applied, because of the low coefficient of friction associated with the clip, and lack of adequate restraining force provided by the clip. Because of this, separation of the clip from the vessel to which it has been applied, after the wound has been closed, is not uncommon. A related problem found in the prior art is the fact that the ligating or restraining force offered by the crushed clip varies along the length of the clip, decreasing toward the open end. Thus, the section of the vessel near the open end of the clip can be inadequately ligated.
It is also common in the prior art to actually form and crushof the vessel support member.
To enhance the performance of the tension coil(s), the vessel support member includes first and second arms, one of which terminates in a 180xc2x0 bend section. Minimal cross-sectional area of the clip is achieved by substantially longitudinally aligning the vessel support member, the clamping arm, the 180xc2x0 bend section, and the tension coil.
The clamping arm is pre-formed into an equilibrium that generally aligns with the horizontal plane of the support member. A second embodiment of the clip pre-loads the clamping arm into a pre-loaded equilibrium position where the free end of the arm rests against the upper surface of the support member.
There exists a relationship between the diameter of the trocar (hence the applier tube) and the maximum diameter of a vessel that can


arm respectively. The enlarged ends are first and second wire loops integrally formed with the support member and the clamping arm of the clip. These enlarged ends provide first and second control surfaces.
Clips such as the one just described are received in an open position in a magazine of a clip applier. The magazine has first and second longitudinally extending, partially closed channels. The enlarged ends of the spring clip are received in and trapped within the first and second channels of the magazine which hold the clip in its open position.
First and second articulated jaws are attached to the magazine. The jaws have channel extensions therein aligned with the first and second channels of the magazine, so that the clip can be received from the magazine inthe jaws with the first and second control surfaces or enlarged ends of the support member and the clamping arm being received in the first and second channel extensions of the jaws.
The first and second channel extensions of the jaws include first and second releasing openings, respectively, which are larger than the first and second enlarged ends of the support member and the clamping arm, so that when the clip is pushed forward in the jaws to a position where the control surfaces are aligned with the releasing openings, the support member and the clamping arm are released thereby allowing the spring to move the support member and the clamping arm toward each other to ligate a blood vessel or other body duct therebetween.
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Back in June 2011, John Podesta and Neera Tanden, President of Center for American Progress, a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization, knew Anthony Weiner was a sex pervert after he was first caught sending naked pics to young women and teens.

They warned eachother to “put on the hazmat suits.”

Via Wikileaks:

This email was sent after the first time Weiner was caught sexting young women and teens.

— May 27, 2011: A lewd photo appears briefly on Weiner’s Twitter account. Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart is first to report the image, which shows the bulging crotch of a man in his underwear.

— May 30, 2011: The congressman tells reporters a hacker got control of his Twitter account. “Look, this is a prank and not a terribly creative one,” Weiner says.Weiner: “I was hacked. It happens to people. You move on.” TRENDING: BREAKING: Senate Finance and Homeland Security Committees Release DEVASTATING Report on Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption -- CROOKED BIDEN FAMILY ENRICHED THEMSELVES AND OBAMA KNEW! — June 1, 2011: Weiner tells CNN he did not post the picture and has hired a law firm to investigate. He continues to evade the question about whether the photo is of him. — June 6, 2011: In an abrupt about-face, a tearful Weiner apologizes for having lied about his Twitter account being hacked and admits to having engaged in inappropriate online relationships with several women he met on the Internet, generally on Facebook. He tells reporters he will not resign and does not plan to separate from his wife.


The fall armyworm and the corn earworm attack sweet corn as earworms. [...] Although they may sometimes eat through the husk to attack the side of the ear, most earworms feed on the silks and enter through the silk channel to attack the tip of the ear. The earworm population may be almost completely composed of corn earworms or of fall armyworms, or of a mixture of the two species.National Assembly and the sitting of the SCCR over the same time frame is like a confluence of events, resulting in the international community paying attention to what is happening in South Africa. What they are seeing is controversial, to say the least, as public statements made by the International Publishers Association, the International Authors Federation and the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisation testify.

What is the Bill about?

Two Bills have just been approved by the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry, after some significant reworking, and sent for passage by the National Assembly: the Copyright Amendment Bill and the Performers Protection Amendment Bill. According to the Portfolio Committee, the Bill that is to amend the Copyright Act seeks to “…establish and protect the rights of creators and


film-making, broadcasting and writing computer software. The genesis of the Copyright Amendment Bill was the Copyright Review Commission, headed by Justice Farlam, set up to investigate music royalties. The Committee produced its report in 2011. This followed the report of the Music Industries Task Team (MITT) of 2000. However, probably due to the music industry being more in the public eye, findings about that industry were applied across the board to all other industries that rely on copyright, without any regard for whether those issues existed there too.

The conflation of issues between the industry sectors has its origin in the 2015 draft of the Copyright Amendment Bill, which the government had to separate out into the two separate Bills. Yet this conflated approach remains, as is very apparentin the language of the Bill, and transfers into the solutions that it applies. One example is the confusion of the work of collecting societies in the music and publishing sectors and the nature of the relationship between the collecting societies and the creators. In the music sector, collecting societies acquire copyright from member musicians by assignment and they act as agents or licensees for them. Authors’ literary works are not assigned to collecting societies.

In the rare cases when authors of literary works do assign their copyright, it is to their publishers for them to compile composite works to which multiple authors contribute. In such cases, authors benefit from lump sum payments that are paid in advance, as opposed to the onerous administrative process of calculating each author’s


in the United States, while his son, Arnaud, is a restaurateur in France.

Daguin served as President of Union des métiers de l'industrie hôtelière (UMIH), which is a union of professional restaurateurs in France. He served on the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council, and was a columnist for Les Grandes Gueules.

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Category:French chefsamount due as principal on the loan package on the date of trial was $242,967.85. The total loss, including interest and other expenses, was $328,572.02.
Michael Castanon worked for RPR at the time this loan transaction was processed by RPR. He was in charge of handling all the details of the transaction. He contacted Standard Pacific and made all the arrangements for closing the deal. It was subsequently discovered that Michael Castanon had been a founder and director of Standard Pacific and was acting as chairman of the board for Standard Pacific when the loan was closed. None of the information concerning the relationship of Castanon and Standard Pacific was communicated to GSW prior to sending the check for the loans to RPR.
Appellant admits that the six "unfunded" loans


348 F.3d 997
CONSOLIDATED BEARINGS COMPANY, Plaintiff-Cross Appellant,v.UNITED STATES, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 02-1634.
No. 02-1635.
United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
Decided October 29, 2003.
Rehearing Denied December 30, 2003.

COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Christopher R. Wall, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, of Washington, DC, argued for plaintiff-cross appellant.
David Silverbrand, Attorney, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellant. On the brief was David M. Cohen, Director. Of counsel were John D. McInerney, Patrick V. Gallagher, and Berniece A. Browne, Attorneys, United States Department of Commerce, of Washington, DC.
Michael D. Esch, Hale and Dorr LLP, of Washington, DC, for amicus curiae Micron Technology, Inc. With him on the brief was Cris R. Revaz.
David J. Levine, McDermott, Will & Emery, of Washington, DC for amicus curiae Hitachi Semiconductor (America) Inc.; andBrian Butterfield #55

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Coaching Career
- Enters his second season as Red Sox Third Base Coach…Was named to the position on 10/30/12...Orono, Maine, native has 35 years of experience in professional baseball, including 17 seasons coaching at the ML level.
- Spent 11 years as a coach in the Blue Jays organization…Had 2 stints as third base coach (2002-07, 2010-12), and worked on John Farrell's staff in 2011-12...Was Toronto's bench coach from 2008-09.
- Previously served on ML staffs under Buck Showalter both with the Yankees and Diamondbacks…Was NYY's first base coach in 1994-95, and the third base and infield coach for ARI from 1998-2000.
- Managed for parts of six minor league seasons in the Yankees system and compiled a 300-293 (.506) record at Rookie-level Sarasota (1988), Short-A Oneonta


(1989), Single-A Greensboro (1990), High-A Fort Lauderdale (1992), High-A Tampa (2001), and Triple-A Columbus (April-May, 2002).
- In first season as a Minor League manager in 1988, earned Gulf Coast League Manager of the Year honors after guiding Sarasota to the league championship...Led his Tampa Yankees squad to a share of the Florida State League title in 2001.
- Spent 1996-97 with ARI working as a roving infield instructor, Minor League manager, and scout of ML talent in preparation for the expansion draft.
- Served four seasons as a Minor League coach in the NYY system with stops at Single-A Fort Lauderdale (1985), Triple-A Columbus (1986), Short-A Oneonta (1987), and Double-A Albany-Colonie (1993).
- Began post-playing career as a roving infield instructor in the Yankees organization in 1984, a position he alsolater held in 1991.

Playing Career
- Signed by the Yankees as a free agent in 1979...Played 397 minor league games over five seasons in the New York (1979-82) and San Diego (1983) systems while appearing primarily at second base.
- Earned team MVP honors in 1981 with High-A Fort Lauderdale when he hit .286 in 94 games with seven doubles and 27 RBI.

Personal
- Married to Jan...The couple has two sons, John and Chris. - Attended the University of Maine as a freshman in 1976 and lettered in baseball and basketball.
- Transferred to Valencia Community College and was named Florida Junior College Player of the Year in 1977.
- Moved to Florida Southern College for two years and was a member of the 1978 National Championship Team... Following his 1st professional season,


returned to coach in the fall at Florida Southern in 1979 and completed his bachelor's degree in physical education at the college in 1980.
- Worked as an assistant coach at Eckerd College in 1980-81.
- Is the son of the late Jack Butterfield who at one time served as Vice President of Player Development and Scouting for the Yankees.Pages

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Angela's heels clacked on the pavement. Through the rehabilitation center's glass
doors she could see Duncan waiting in his wheelchair. His faithful attendant, Jerry, hovered behind
the investigator.

Duncan took in the details of his approaching
girlfriend's appearance. Angela made him
want to leap from his seat. He didn't
require a wheelchair, but the clinic's policy demanded he be pushed from the
facility. He still limped, but he'd
worked hard in rehab, focusing on his future, and had recovered faster than
anyone thought possible.

Angela tried to make it to Edinburgh every other
weekend to encourage Duncan and keep him company. She stayed with the family, but the Dewars
made themselves scarce at the therapy center when she visited, giving the
couple time to be alone. The Scotsman
extracted a promise from the lass that when he was released,


she would greet
him and take him home. He hadn't seen
her in three weeks and couldn't wait to hold her in his arms, away from the
hospital.

As Angela drew closer to the doors, Duncan's grin grew
by degrees until the muscles in his cheeks ached. She had almost reached the entrance when he
noted a startled look on her face, then a crowd rushed between them and blocked
his view.

Storming through the sliding doors, a noisy group of a
dozen people charged towards Duncan.
Bright lights from flashing cameras went off, producing temporary blindness. Confused, the investigator had no idea what
was happening.

"Here he is, boys.
The hero of the UK," a vaguely familiar female voice rose above the
din.

"How does it feel to find redemption?"

"When did the two of you get back together?"

"How do you plan tospend the reward money?"

"Have you had any contact with Caroline Menzies?"

"How did you keep your relationship hidden from
the public?"

Questions fired like bullets from an automatic weapon
at Duncan, who remained blinded from the brilliant bursts of light.

He turned his head to see who was orchestrating this
gang of what he now understood to be reporters.
As his pupils dilated and his vision returned, he saw who spoke. There, dressed in a strapless, dark brown
leather bustier with matching skirt and spike-heeled boots, towered Cassandra
Baines. Her platform stilettos raised
her to well over one and a half meters, giving her a height advantage. The former model stepped next to Duncan, bent
at the waist, and planted a kiss on the investigator's cheek, angling herself
to the cameras, allowing the photographers an ample view of her bosom.

Duncan


squirmed away from Cassandra as best he could,
seated in the wheelchair. It didn't occur
to him to get up and leave. His old
girlfriend draped her arm around the investigator and pulled him close, sitting
on the edge of his chair, as cameras flashed, lending the drab lobby the
lighting of a discotheque.

"That's it boys. Clear off," Cassandra ordered as a
security officer for the hospital approached the group.

The reporters dissipated as quickly as they'd arrived,
leaving Duncan alone with Cassandra and a stunned Jerry. The Scotsman scanned the room for Angela, but
she was nowhere to be seen.

"What do you think you're doing?" Duncan
asked, incensed.

Cassandra's smile transformed into a hurt
expression. She jutted her lower lip
forward in an exaggerated pout.

"Just helping you get back on your feet. Imagine the publicity this will generate for
your consultingventure. Now, everyone knows you're here to
stay. You should be thanking me instead
of scowling, Poppett."

Cassandra bent over Duncan and, placing a palm on each side
of his jaw, attempted to draw him into a full blown kiss.

"Uhm, uhm," someone cleared their throat
behind Cassandra.

Duncan jerked his face free while Jerry looked on,
bemused at the scene. Cassandra
straightened to her full height and turned to see who dared interrupt her mini-tryst.

"Excuse me," Angela said in a business-like
tone, stepping to one side and then moving her body between Duncan and the
former model. "Are you ready?"
his girlfriend asked with a pleasant voice, smiling at both the investigator
and Jerry while ignoring the woman.

"Yes," Duncan rasped out.

He tried to keep his eyes off Cassandra, but gave her a
sidelong glance as Jerry wheeled him from the lobby.


His old girlfriend tapped away on her mobile
phone, ignoring their procession. Duncan
couldn't remember the last time he felt so awkward. Everything happened so fast. What
must Angela think?

Jerry, who by now had collected his thoughts and formed
an opinion on the scene in the lobby, saw Duncan into the passenger seat of the
car. Duncan said his good-byes and
thanked his attendant. Jerry gave him a
wry smile, as if to say Now you're in for
it, before shutting the vehicle's
door. Duncan studied Angela. Her hands trembled at the wheel.

"I'm sorry, Angela. I had no idea that was coming."

"Just what was
that?" Angela asked, her eyes trained straight ahead.

"I don't know. I suspect Cassandra is trying to cash in on
the media attention I've had since the story broke about the treasure at
Lindisfarne. I tried toget away from
her."

Duncan had been instrumental in discovering a lost
hoard of riches, hidden by the monks on Holy Island hundreds of years
before. His recent case had almost cost
him his life and when the press got hold of the details, Duncan featured
prominently in their headlines. Years
before, he achieved brief fame for a breakthrough technique he'd invented employing
mathematics in accident investigations.
It was then he'd dated Cassandra Baines, a well-known model in the UK.

"That's not what it looked like," Angela
said, her voice full of anger.

The lass flashed her cellular at Duncan, who took the
phone in his hand. There, on the on-line
page of Edinburgh's leading rag, was a photo of the investigator leering at
Cassandra's cleavage with a pleased expression on his face. In reality, the camera angle affected the
photo; he had tried


with you at this moment, you'd be
on that curb over there, thrown on your duff!" Angela retorted, pointing
to the pavement as the vehicle rounded a corner.

Monday, November 23, 2015

Victoria Benchley lives with
her husband of over twenty years and their two children on the West Coast of
the United States. She started reading the classics at an early age, as a way
to avoid chores, and counts Dickens and the Bronte Sisters as her favorite
authors. After a career in corporate America, spanning public accounting, cash
management, and real estate investments, at national and international firms,
she chose to become a stay-at-home mom and full time taxi cab driver for her
children.

Victoria
is the author of the Duncan Dewar Mysteries and a stand alone novel, The Snail
Man. Inspired by her travels and
Scottish relatives, she enjoys creatingstories set in Scotland and Europe.

She is a Christian and enjoys
quilting, cooking, and traveling (including road trips!), as well as reading
and writing.On Sunday afternoons during
football season, she can be found enjoying an NFL game.

IAN: Please
tell us about your latest book.

V. Benchley: My latest book is The Christmas Contest. A new adventure in the Duncan Dewar Series,
this novel is two parts romantic comedy and one part mystery. The reader gets to experience Christmas and
Hogmanay in Scotland with the Dewar family and their friends. As usual, the characters find themselves in a
bit of a muddle. Recovering from serious
injuries sustained during his last case, and hoping to nurture his fragile relationship with
Angela, Duncan and his family decamp for a relaxing Christmas holiday in the
village of Taye, Scotland. Joined by the
irascible Chef


Mondo, their stay ends up being a whirl of festivities, food,
misunderstandings, and a jewel heist.
But it's not just about Christmas in Taye. The village council is out to make a name for
the town by hosting an elaborate Hogmanay celebration, complete with ancient
traditions. Is Duncan up to the ultimate
contest for Angela's heart? This good
natured romp through the holidays will warm your heart as you join the Dewar
family and their friends for an experience not to be forgotten.

V. Benchley: I am of Scottish descent. I remember many of my relatives, and their
writings, mainly humorous poetry, survive.
Their wit and love of family, along with my own travels to Scotland
inspired The Christmas Contest. Also,
their holiday recipes played a role in the inspiration and feature prominently
in some of the competitions in the book!

IAN:fourth of the book.
Once over that hump, things flow pretty well. However, I never went through that rough
patch with The Christmas Contest, perhaps because it starts up where The Laird's
Labyrinth lets off.

IAN: Tell us
about your next book or a work in progress. Is it a sequel or a stand-alone?

V. Benchley: I'm kicking around several ideas for my next Duncan
Dewar Mystery. Will Duncan choose the
village life of an innkeeper over Edinburgh sleuthing? What events or people from his past come back
to wreak havoc on his professional and personal life? Will he and Angela get around to tying the
knot?

In
addition, I plan to begin work on a new mystery series. I am currently busy developing the characters
for this exciting venture.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

PJ
McDermott was born and bred in Scotland. After leaving


school at sixteen, he
worked in various jobs on building sites and in factories before he learned to
play guitar and began performing in pubs and clubs around town. At twenty-one
he returned to college and from there went on to Glasgow University, where he
eventually graduated Bachelor of Science.

At
twenty-seven, PJ married and moved to Australia with his wife, Sue, settling in
the beautiful city of Melbourne. He has two daughters, one son-in-law and two
delightful grandchildren—Mia, 3, and Ryder Patrick, 1

IAN: Please tell us a bit about your books.

PJ
McDermott:I have just finished writing book two in my science
fiction series, The Prosperine Trilogy.
It’s called Rise of the Erlachi and
it was launched on 5th November on Amazon. The novella is
approximately 40,000 words and continues the adventures of

Commander Hickory
Lace of the Alien Corps.

The
Corps has been searchingcracks are appearing in Chinese markets with the Shanghai/Shenzhen suffering a 300-point drop of almost 5% over the Thanksgiving Holiday. Stifling new guidelines have also created a rout in the bond market where yields on government treasury bonds rose to three-year highs; the yield on the Chinese-10 year has risen from about 3.6 percent in early October, to over four percent recently, which is a three-year high.

Many of these new rules were developed to minimize risks in the highly unregulated Asset Management industry that has ballooned in the past few years. According to the Peoples Bank of China (PBOC), at the end of 2016 the collective outstanding volume of the Asset Management business was 102 trillion yuan ($15.38 trillion); that includes 29 trillion yuan of bank wealth management


products and 17.5 trillion yuan in trust products.

But, reining in the wild west of Chinese credit will undoubtedly bring turmoil to banks and millions of small investors. The new regulations will set leverage limits for Asset Management products, prohibit investors from pledging shares as collateral to obtain financing, and will discourage financial institutions from providing investors with implicit guarantees against investment losses. Furthermore, they constrain financial institutions from continually rolling over products–papering over investment losses by the new product issuance–a.k.a. a Ponzi scheme.

All these new regulations will likely cool the debt-fueled Chinese economy, which Deutsche Bank has recently noted is already losing heat. According to Deutsche, for the first time since Q4 2004, fixed asset investment growth has turned negative in real terms. In addition, the growth ofmanagement services. The firm also provides research for individual and institutional clients through its weekly podcast called, The Mid-week Reality Check. PPS' Inflation/Deflation Dynamic Portfolio SM is replicated by major financial institutions according to the firm's proprietary investment Model. Mr. Pento is also the host of the web-based show called, The Pentonomics Program. Michael is a well-established specialist in markets and economics and a regular guest on CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, FOX Business News and other international media outlets. His market analysis can also be read in most major financial publications, including the Wall Street Journal.


doctor.

Big Brother doesn't even need to be watching with his own eyes.

There is an entire network — the internet inside China's Great Firewall — designed to gather the information. And there's an industry of private and state-owned high-tech enterprises serving it.

"You could go so far as to make the argument that social media and digital technology are actually supporting the regime," says Ronald Deibert, the director of The Citizen Lab, a group of researchers at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs. They study how information technology affects human and personal rights around the world.

Ronald Deibert, of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, says Chinese authorities 'have a wealth of data at their disposal about what individuals are doing at a micro level inthird survey was about 30 min.

Timing

This survey was sent to the participants 1 day after they were due to have their psychedelic experience.

Survey 4: 2 Weeks Afterwards

Structure

The fourth survey asked whether or not participants have had more than one psychedelic experience in the past 2 weeks, and if so, how many. The remaining part of the fourth survey mainly contained the same measures as those included in the first survey. The only variable that was of interest here was well-being, because of the interest in the change scores of this construct before and after the psychedelic experience.

Duration

The completion time of the fourth survey was about 35 min.

Timing

This survey was sent to the participants 2 weeks after they had their psychedelic experience, based on the date they provided in


the sign up process.

Survey 5: 4 Weeks Afterwards

Structure

The fifth survey asked whether or not participants have had more than one psychedelic experience in the past 4 weeks, and if so, how many. The remaining part of the fifth survey mainly contained the same measures as those included in the first and fourth survey. The only variable that was of interest here was well-being, because of the interest in the change scores of this construct before and after the psychedelic experience.

Duration

The completion time of the fifth survey was about 35 min.

Timing

This survey was sent to the participants 4 weeks after they had their psychedelic experience, based on the date they provided in the sign up process.

Statistical Analyses

A principle component analysis was done to the set and setting items thatstop.

Kobayashi in trouble and slows on the track.

Senna struggles to get going after a 9.2 second pit stop. And he comes out in front of Rosberg

Lap 13

Kubica pits for hard tyres comes out in 16th as Glock passes Kovalainen for 17th. A good solid move for position.

Lap 14

Vettel now 4.1 seconds in the lead at the front.

Petrov and Alguersuari pits. A wretched pit stop for Petrov. It seems the tyres weren't put on correctly or there were problems ingetting them off. he's still in the pits.

Lap 15

Kubica sets the fastest first sector on his new tyres. But he's back in 16th and way out of contention. Vettel making it look very easy.

Kubica converts his first sector into a fastest lap of 2:01.397.

Petrov's engine is off and the mechanics


cars finished, but clearly a lot of work needed at the Virgin and HRT teams.

Alonso waves to the crowd after a very comfortable win in the end. The three drivers are on the podium for the national anthems and will be spraying the rosewater any second now … no champagne here, don't forget.

That's it from ESPNF1 as far as the Bahrain Grand Prix is concerned. We hope you have enjoyed our coverage and join us again in 12 days time when we are in Australia for the second race of the season.1942, no private airplanes in 1959, or no personal computers in 1994.

The two major reasons for this situation are that building rockets is expensive and, since a primary use of rockets has been as a weapon, much of the development was classified. While the commercial space access market is growing, namely with SpaceX, Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada, and others, they have not made a dent in the most significant issue: an almost complete lack of open source data on how to build a Space Launch Vehicle. To date, the best open information is NASA SP-125 and the 8000 series monograms, both of which are from the early 1970s. As recently as 2013, even some of these basic texts have been temporarily taken off NASA’s public database. In order


The first came just 19 days into the year. The victim: a teenager, shot dead on the front porch of a home at 16th and Park, just across a church.

By midyear the count was up to six, among them: Ronald McGruder was shot multiple times in the head along Hanover Street in the early morning hours of May 30. Two other city residents were killed in July - one in Hall Manor, the other on South 18th Street.

By the time Maurice Geter Jr., a 21-year-old former Bishop McDevitt football player, was shot dead two weeks ago, Harrisburg had seen 14 homicides. Sunday's fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man brought the city's homicide tally to 16. Xavier A. Williams was on the way home from a corner store at4:30 p.m. when he was gunned down at the intersection of Kittatinny and Nectarine streets.

Long assigned the hyperbolic moniker of being an unsafe city, Harrisburg in 2014 contended yet again with the troubling perception that its streets were unsafe and violent.

With just a few weeks left in the year, the city will likely equal or surpass its count of 17 homicides last year, a figure that ranked Harrisburg the 25th most dangerous city in the nation - surpassing Baltimore and Philadelphia.

To the consternation of others, plenty of people who live and work in Harrisburg argue that the grim outlook is merely a perception problem. Harrisburg has crime, they argue, but the hype blows things out of proportion.

"It's a misnomer to say there are safe neighborhoods," said the Rev.


if the perpetrators are not people of color, it doesn't seem to warrant the same kind of fear," Mitchell said.

Crime numbers have gone down

Indeed, crimes of poverty have long plagued Harrisburg - as with most urban centers - but in 2014, the violence took on a different nuance.

Amid the preponderance of crime incidents that happened between individuals who knew each other, Harrisburg in 2014 contended with violent crime that seemed to be totally random. In the span of a few weeks beginning in October, police responded to the sexual assault of a 14-year-old student on her way to school in the morning, the attempted armed robbery of two legislators, and the seemingly random stabbing of a 41-year-old West Shore man. With little if any leads, police know thismuch: Richard McQuown had been out with friends along Restaurant Row the evening before a jogger found him underneath the Walnut Street Bridge near-death from stabbing wounds. He died later in hospital.

Reports like these are the reason Meleeka Bazemore uprooted her family from Harrisburg and moved to Highspire.

"I was raised in this environment," Basemore said. "I didn't want this for my kids. I didn't want to raise kids in this poverty and this environment. I had to break the cycle."

The crime rate in Harrisburg, in fact, is actually down from what it was in recent decades.

Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico, for instance, points out that when compared to the crime numbers of the 1980s and 1990s, Harrisburg is a far safer city these days. Marsico recalls annual