In a context of peripheral node of the motorway, the building is set within a park, planted with native species, in which a sort of town square accompanied to the entrance. The dynamism of the client is shown in architecture, volume changing, a prism completely covered in black glass faceted and integrated photovoltaic panels.

In plan the building is on the east-west, in two wings separated by a central block of facilities (stairs, toilets and bars). Operating areas are designed as open-space, while the executive offices, the private sector, are tested in the east of the building, projected to the outside and suspended in a vacuum.

The entire structure is of type point with beams and reinforced concrete pillars brick and cladding. Building components and systems provide the Class Ayou could run the French riots number three, instead of the voting in New Jersey and Virginia and California? Just maybe?

No, that's not how The Post looks at the world. As far as those guys are concerned, the US soldiers have never left, no transition to democracy has ever taken place, and James Soong was never photographed rooting around on his belly like a pig in order to kiss the Taiwanese dirt. May the good old days never end!

I know, there's no honor in whipping a dead dog. But sometimes even a dead dog can affront your sensibilities.

Monday, November 07, 2005

I can't wait!

In the wake of a just-completed trip to Taiwan by a Chinese tourism official (who was, officially at least, visiting in his private capacity), it now


to be movers and shakers in China itself. Or so this Christian Science Monitorpiece indicates:

"[pan-blue politicians'] Chinese interlocutors hinted that Taiwan could one day play an important role in myriad areas, including the future democratization of China, and its modernization. Many KMT officials seem to agree..."

If the Liens and Soongs of the world really did enjoy the idea of participating in China's eventual democratization, then I'd have to give them some credit for that. But in fact, neither man enjoys democracy in any form. What I think these guys really imagine for themselves in the post-handover world is to live amid the adulation that's due a despot's chief bootlickers. Oh, the heroes they'd be in the mother country.

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

My colleagues tell me that the reason theBut for the most part, my news of the world came from the cankao xiaoxi, a Chinese-language compendium of wire stories that the CPC felt told the truth about the world. Mostly, the stories were critical of Western governments at the time - as one could imagine. There wasn’t really a whole lot about Lee Teng-hui’s visit to Cornell that I recall, but all of us in China were regaled with glorious footage of the military exercises that are now known as the Taiwan Missile Crisis.

Bellochi says he was the one who suggested the “elongated transit” for Lee that still serves as a model for unofficial visits in the United States by Taiwanese leaders. IMHO, in his honor we should start calling them Bellochi transits. In any case,


it’s notable that these transits are no longer a big deal. In fact, President Chen placed so much importance in his last scheduled San Francisco transit stop that he went to the United Arab Emirates instead. As Bellochi notes, it will be interesting to hear what Lee has to say this time around on his visit. It will be even more interesting to see whether Taiwanese leaders will be officially welcomed in Washington a decade hence.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

History 101

Sigh!

Keith Bradsher from the New York Times writes:

The history of tea itself reaches back to ancient times in China. The earliest known literary references date back nearly 5,000 years, when Emperor Shen Nung is said to have discovered the infusion when leaves dropped into his hot water by chance.

Nonsense.China's oldest book, the Book of Songs (Shijing), may have sections that are 3,000 years old. And Shen Nung doesn't appear in Chinese literature until the late Warring States period (c. 475 BCE to 221 BCE). There's just no way that "[t]he earliest known literary references date back nearly 5,000 years."

Chen has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's ability to dissolve the diet and in turn win a snap election. Chen appears tempted to make a similar call as a way out of the current political deadlock in Taiwan's legislative yuan. However, doing so would further polarize domestic politics and cause more unrest in Taiwan's unconsolidated democracy. Chen ought to be mindful not to sacrifice the long-term goal of political stability for short-term political


excellent and he got lots of ground balls. But multiple errors led to four runs scoring on Wang's watch. Angels 5, Yankees 3. Tough luck.

my lonely obsession with baseball, I'll just note that Tainan's own Wang Chien-ming is, as I write, pitching for the New York Yankees in their playoff game against the Los Angeles Angels. Through four innings, he's allowed no runs on two hits. Good show so far, Mr. Wang. He's also hit Vladimir Guerrero with a pitch, not necessarily a bad strategy.

I'm a Yankee-hater through and through, but today I must put aside my disgust with all things pinstriped and pull for the Taiwanese kid to do good.

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Baseball player found dead

"Taiwan's pro baseball league suffered a tragic loss yesterday when the popularMario Encarnacion of the Macoto Cobras was found dead yesterday morning in his room at the team's housing unit in Danshuei," the Taiwan News tells us.

Encarnacion is said to have suffered badly from gastroenteritis. He'd also tested positive for a banned substance this year, though he'd claimed the positive result was due to his use of cold medicine. A league official asked the press not to speculate about whether his death was caused by steroid use. But a more disturbing possibility is that Encarnacion had gotten in trouble with gangsters.

So far there's no indication that he had. But given the way that news stories in this country flip and flop from one day to the next, with first-day stories often being entirely contradicted by second-day stories, I'm afraid


the braintrust of the Executive Yuan.

China's pronouncements on Uighurs in Xinjiang have a certain familiar tone, one that we in Taiwan have come to know and loathe. Same for Tibet, of course, and all the other places where the great glory of the Han is not automatically recognized as the world's civilizing light. I... oh, forget it.

Read it and weep: "A software company in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, has developed 'Anti-Japan War Online'... 'We aim to nurture a national spirit in young people,' said Hao Xianghong, 36, the union's Network Film and Television Center's vice minister." In the pipeline: Taiwan Nuked!

Where have you heard something like this before? " Shanghai's plan has been to turn itself from an industrial city into a services, finance and transport hub." I feelmanagement who is undoubtedly trying to burnish the paper's credentials as a serious newspaper. The story is an obvious plant--it refers to some kind of feature in Foreign Affairs that I can't find on the their site. The fairly new editorial blogs at the China Times are a much better indication of the intelligence of the people over at Rank's favorite Chinese-language paper.

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Don't play dead!If you go to Yushan National Park, you may see stickers like this posted by Park Headquarters. The rangers want to warn you not to play dead if you run into a Formosan Black Bear. The white words under the drawing say "Playing Dead is Prohibited." The smaller lettering says "Playing dead is wrong . Don't do it for the sake


in the first place. But China has not kept its promises either. Hong Kong was promised an independent legal system, and that promise has been abrogated. And in the Basic Law, China committed itself to future political freedoms such as free elections. Those commitments have been deferred indefintely.

But Taiwan has a full set of political freedoms in place on the ground right now. China would have to be trusted to respect those freedoms, which given China's track record in Hong Kong vis a vis the Hong Kong legal system there is little reason to believe that it would.

Still, it's nice to have a concrete example on hand of what kind of place Hong Kong is turning into. Here's a great Traveller's Tale from FEER about how Yahoo! HongTaipei County. Son of notorious but now retired gangster-legislator Luo Fu-zhu.) Variety show host Jackie Wu also graced the event.

The groom, whose Chinese means 'the likeness of goodness', has recently completed his studies in the US and will work in the high tech industry. The bride is a saleswoman at a department store boutique. Her name was left unmentioned in the article.

And all this just a week after what has to be one of the great quotes of the year. Ke Jun-xiong (KMT, Hsinchu) and TSU caucus leader He Min-hao took advantage of their taxpayer-funded junket to Japan to visit a notorious Yakuza leader there. Ke defended the visit by telling reporters that "I'm sure that most of the men sitting in this room have friends in the


the streets are empty.

Thursday, September 01, 2005

Here's a strange one that didn't make the English papers

Ms. Wang, a 38 year old woman who says she is a virgin, goes to Cathay General Hospital with her mother, where Dr. Lin Hui-lin, a minor celebrity herself, gives Ms. Wang a pelvic exam without getting Ms. Wang's permission first.

During the examination Ms. Wang's hymen was ruptured. Ms. Wang then filed a complaint with the Consumer Foundation. After mediation by the Consumer Foundattion, Cathay General Hospital said that it would repair Ms. Wang's hymen free of charge or give her NT$100,000.

The Wangs, however, were not satisfied. Ms. Wang's father, one Wang Xian-ji, held a news conference where, brandishing his daughter's bloody panties (the print version of the Apple Daily story actually hada picture of this), he demanded NT$5 million in compensation and an apology from Dr. Lin or he would take her to court for medical malpractice. In the China Times verion of the story Mr. Wang said that although his daughter had had boyfriends, she had protected her virginity like a treasure. Now her ill-fated doctor's visit had destroyed a woman's most valuable possession-her hymen.

Mr. Wang, it turns out, is a Taiwanese independence activist who started something called the 8 Sept. Taiwan National Day Movement. The Movement wants to establish Sept. 8 as Taiwan's national day to commemorate the date in 1951 on which Japan relinquished sovereignty over Taiwan in the Treaty of San Francisco.

Dr. Lin has appeared in shampoo commercials and Mandopop music videos. Apparently this is


of his wisecracks. They certainly weren't rushing to help him.

Later, somewhere up a mountain road from Qingquan, we parked the car to take a look at the view. A scooter zoomed past us, upward bound, and we noticed that the driver was a boy of roughly eight. His passenger, and presumably his brother, looked more in the range of four. Big brother rode pretty competently, taking turns with a deep professional tilt. Perhaps no one in the brothers' house was awake at that late hour of the morning, and the boys had taken matters into their own hands and driven off to the store for some instant noodles. For a long time after the scooter had gone past us, the little brother stared back in our direction. Tothis four-year-old, his morning scooter ride was normal as could be. The real freaks were the foreigners staring at mountains.

Later yet, we stopped at a roadside stand and bought a couple of sausages. Then we ambled a small distance away to a sort of platform and ate our snacks off sticks. One of my friends, female as it happens, sat down on the edge of the platform, facing back toward the sausage stand. This provided an opportunity to a little boy -- seven, maybe? -- to pipe up with loud obscene talk. He wanted to know if my female friend had a lot of pubic hair, for instance, or whether instead she shaved it. The boy was surrounded by adults but no one made a move to shush


most remarkable thing was the size of the crowd -- thousands upon thousands of people, all assembled on a warm summer night to take in a bit of modern dance. Most people (me included) had to sit so far from the front that they were forced to watch the Jumbotrons instead of the stage. It was like going to a Rolling Stones concert, except the audience was sober and not so old.

I was shocked to learn today that Lin Hwai-min, Cloud Gate's founder, is not only an internationally acclaimed figure in dance but also a graduate of the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, with several published novels to his credit. Who ever heard of such a thing? I didn't like Dream of the Red Chamber verymuch but I have to say I'm impressed with Mr. Lin's achievements.

Friday, August 12, 2005

Getting it wrong. Again.

It's never a huge surprise when a reporter mischaracterizes the United States' policy on Taiwan. But this particular factual disaster, from a Reuters story on virtual war games in Taiwan, really distinguishes itself as idiotic:

"The United States recognizes the mainland as China's sole legitimate government -- the 'one-China' policy -- but in a deliberately ambiguous piece of foreign policy it is also obliged by law to help Taiwan defend itself."

No. the "one China" policy, as professed to by the U.S., says that there is but one China and Taiwan is a part of it. The ambiguity has to do with which government is the legitimate representative of that one China. The


ambiguity has grown into an anachronism over the years, because Taiwan no longer claims (except in the R.O.C. Constitution) to be the rightful government of the land across the Strait. But still, ambiguity is the very essence of the United States' "one China" position. The fact that the U.S. is obligated under the Taiwan Relations Act to help Taiwan provide for its defense doesn't particularly contribute to the ambiguity. The ambiguity is the policy itself.

Now, to hammer on a different section of the Reuters quote -- "The United States recognizes the mainland as China's sole legitimate government" -- what in the world is that even supposed to mean? Read naively, by a moron, it would seem to indicate that Taiwan just is a part of China, and thatthat he was lying down on the field of play. In the spirit of understatement, I'll simply note that I've never seen that in Major League Baseball.

I saw a groundskeeper abandon his rake during mid-game field maintenance. That's right, he just plain left his rake on the field. It was eventually picked up by the man operating the little buggy that smooths out the infield. But only after the rake had gotten run over.

I saw a pitching coach standing on the mound, watching critically, while a relief pitcher was going through his warm-up tosses. A pitching coach doing that in the States would probably find himself subject to vicious retribution of some kind.

Finally, on what was a difficult but probably makable play for a third baseman fielding a


hosting big computer conferences, or carrying out a quixotic (and mind-numblingly dull) quest for inclusion in the World Health Organization. Most of these efforts come to nothing, and members of Taiwan's diplomatic corps must be among the most rejected people on the planet.

That's why this press release from the website of the Communications Workers of America caught my eye. The background is that Chunghwa Telecom, the primarily state-owned telephone company, is on the way to being privatized, but there's great resistance to privatization among the company's employees and among many politicians too. Well, now it turns out that the anti-privatizers have an ally in the AFL-CIO, the U.S. umbrella labor organization, which is calling on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to block any sale of Chunghwa sharesresult of strategizing by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At this very moment, MOFA is probably trying to win inclusion under the name "Taiwan, ROC" in the International Association of Guava-Producing Nations.

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Silly Frank (And a Rant about Dao)

Yesterday's China Times Evening Express ran a very silly picture of Frank Hsieh admiring a toy sword he was given at a press conference to announce that August 1 will be now be (get this) "Indigenous People's Re-designation Day" [sic] . Hsieh revealed that his great-grandmother was an aboriginal Taiwanese. Update: It gets better yet. In today's Taipei Times, Hsieh says that he is probably a Bunun because

...whenever I hear Bunun music I become excited and emotional.Hsieh is truly the master of the silly sound bite. You still


Robert Durst is escorted into Orleans Parish Prison after his arraignment Tuesday (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert).

In one of the many chilling moments of HBO’s The Jinx, murder suspect and Manhattan real estate heir Robert Durst mumbles to himself during a break from his interview with director Andrew Jarecki, seemingly oblivious to the microphone still recording from its perch on his sweater. Durst was quietly rehearsing how to explain his previous murder testimony when his lawyer alerted him to the hot mic.

“I never intentionally, purposefully lied,” he repeated to his lawyer, his voice crescendoing. Durst added matter-of-factly: “I made mistakes. I did not tell the whole truth. Nobody tells the whole truth.”

The six-episode documentary series, which began airing in February, implies that Durst didn’t tell the whole truth when hewas tried and acquitted for the murder of neighbor Morris Black in 2001. It also suggests he had a hand in the disappearance of wife Kathleen Durst in 1982 and death of friend Susan Berman in 2000. The most damning evidence, it seems, is a letter from Durst recovered by Berman’s adopted son. The handwriting in the letter bears a striking resemblance to the handwriting found on a note sent to police by Berman’s killer in 2000. In a second, climactic interview with Durst, Jarecki presents him with both documents. Amid belches hinting he might get physically sick, the 71-year-old panned the comparison. Yet after the interview he seemingly confessed to murdering all three people–on another hot mic, no less–before the screen, and series, faded to black.

The Jinx


They also included government representatives, technical staff working on targeted innovations, and NGO staff such as farmer representatives working in the locations targeted by the interventions. The innovation networks surrounding the MSP stakeholders included central government actors, UN organizations, and the managers of the organizations' MSP stakeholders, located in bigger cities or in some cases abroad. Provincial and national policymakers and innovation networks organized around other projects were members of the innovation systems in the cases investigated. In almost all the MSPs investigated, there were a few other interventions working on innovations related to the cases on which we focused. Typical examples were interventions focusing on nutrition aspects or marketing aspects of the focus crops in the MSPs studied. Some of the MSP or innovation network stakeholders involvedPages

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

IWSG: A Thousand Ideas

It's the first Wednesday of the month, which hails the regular arrival of the Insecure Writer's Support Group, hosted by Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh. The group offers a place for writers of all kinds to support each other in those ever-present moments of insecurity.

While many use this as an opportunity to vent their frustrations, I realized early on that if I keep posting about my own insecurities, these posts will start sounding very similar. So I decided to move away from "woe is me" and focus on motivation and encouragement, centering my IWSG posts on inspirational quotes from people I admire.

Today's words of wisdom come from Orson Scott Card, one of the most popular science fiction authors of the last thirty


years. He is perhaps best known for Ender's Game, in which the titular child protagonist is trained for interplanetary war with a race of insectoid aliens. This Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel has spawned an entire franchise, including a comic book series and an upcoming motion picture adaptation (which I can't wait for). Card has made a career of molding worlds, shaping universes, and influencing authors. On the topic of creative inspiration, he had the following to say, and it's one of those quotes that I try to carry around with me every day, not necessarily for motivation or encouragement, but simply as a reminder:

"Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most peoplerhyme." "Thus, what matters for you in a word is its sound quality, rather than its meaning." "Poetry is music above all else." "Of course." "The act of reproduction, which is up to us, is to set everything to music." "And not just to return the favour, musicians draw inspiration from your works." "After the engravings of Manet, it is the turn of Debussy's music to illustrate The Afternoon of the Faun." "As regards Manet, he was one of your closest friends, and you vigorously defended him when in 1874 the jury of The Salon rejected two of his canvases" " The Swallows and The Masked Ball at the Opera." "The aesthetic qualities are impeccable, and as for the realization of this piece of art, which the demands


This mod adds onto the Hlaalu stronghold at all stages of construction, and also adds a 4th construction stage (with accompanying quest). There are also extra quests to get a companion-friendly teleport ring, find new mines (one being an new mining colony), and one to rid House Hlaalu of the Camonna Tong influence. This mod also includes (with the stage 4 additions) fast travel by boat to Balmora, Ebonheart, and Suran (there is no boat service in Suran until a later quest). The original Rethan Manor interior has been heavily modified, and now includes an enlarged dining area, as well as a library (which includes, a librarian who sells/buys books and coffee, and a guild guide teleport system to various bookshops and libraries), Livingroom & Personell Bedroom, alchemyASC was proud to work with the film maker and artist Agnes Varda on her March 2017 show at Blum & Poe, NYC. We were responsible for the technology systems that presented the mixed media work throughout the gallery. Highlights included a completely revamped edition of 'Le Triptyque de Noirmoutier' which used wireless technology and computer playback systems to digitally 'reveal' the work as users opened and closed the side panels.


to make his voyage.

Porky addresses his crew that they are going to travel the Atlantic Ocean, but they are seemingly scared with their legs moving from left-to-right. When Porky asks them: "Why fellas, you ain't scared to go, are you? What are you men or mice?", they then looked in different directions until they shrink smaller and smaller, as they transform into mice, giving the answer in a chipmunk voice that they are mice, and run off down the ship (with another one sliding down). Porky then however was shown holding the flag rope with appeals a pair of underpants. Then it shows a view of a banner reading "Bon Voyage Kris" with the audience in the background. Many signs appear as Porky speeds with hisHeart, during a season in which he was hampered greatly by injuries.

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After the 2010–11 A–League season, Ibrahim went on loan  to VPL side South Melbourne for the 2011 Victorian Premier League season.

On 6 April 2012 it was announced that he would be leaving Melbourne Heart.

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He signed for Heidelberg United for the remainder of the 2012 VPL season. After leaving Heidelberg at the end of 2012, Ibrahim signed with Port Melbourne in 2013. He won the NPL Victoria Gold Medal, the league best and fairest award, with Port Melbourne in 2015.

Ibrahim signed for reigning NPL Victoria champions Bentleigh Greens SC in mid-October, 2015, for the 2016 season. Ibrahim made his Bentleigh debut on 11 March 2016, playing 58 minutes in a 3-1 win


knowledge for the society and the environment. It is the objective to make significant contributions to the global challenges in the fields of energy, mobility, and information. For this, about 9,300 employees cooperate in a broad range of disciplines in natural sciences, engineering sciences, economics, and the humanities and social sciences. KIT prepares its 24,400 students for responsible tasks in society, industry, and science by offering research-based study programs. Innovation efforts at KIT build a bridge between important scientific findings and their application for the benefit of society, economic prosperity, and the preservation of our natural basis of life. KIT is one of the German universities of excellence.seventh and the eighth). In the trials with "medium" difficulties, the images A and B were separated by two or three images (e.g., if the target image was the first of the route, then image A was the fifth and B the eighth). Finally, in the "easy" trials, the images A and B were separated by four or five images (e.g., if the target image was the first of the route, then image A was the third and image B the eighth). Based on this logic, 24 trials were created (8 images × 3 levels of difficulty), and the trials were the same for all the layout x valence combinations; the latter only differed for the kind of images. In other words, the trials' difficulties were matched across


abutment edge, and the rear arm, which extends from the pivot point in the opposite direction, is affected by actuating means in such a manner that, when the tool is operated, the stop means performs rocking movements which, in one operational phase, bring said forward arm with the abutment edge in front of the affixing part of a terminal inserted into the tongs, and in another phase remove it from this region. The affixing part of the treated terminal is never positively grasped by some part of the stop means.
In the European patent application of the present inventors published with No. 0125708 and corresponding to the U.S. patent application Ser. No. 599,246 a pair of cable shoe pliers is described which has to one side of one jawthe Electronic appliances too, Samsung has become a trusted name in the electronic things so their refrigerator is also being like by everyone as this is coming with lots of specifications of the double door, 250 Lt capacity and an auto inverter technology.

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her death.  At her husband's death Mrs. Van Wert was left with real and intangible personal property of substantial value, including 70,000 shares of stock in El Paso Natural Gas Company.  By and large, the certificates and instruments evidencing her ownership of these assets, together with her books and records, were in taxpayer's possession.

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In November, 1957 Mrs. Van Wert executed stock powers, covering certificates representing the 70,000 shares of El Paso stock in taxpayer's possession, in favor of taxpayer (50,000 shares) and Mrs. Early (20,000 shares).  Mrs. Van Wert's 1957 federal gift tax return, prepared and filed by taxpayer, did not reflect these transactions.

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Mrs. Van Wert died August 12, 1958.  She left a will and codicil in which she appointed taxpayer and another ascoexecutors, made various specific and monetary bequests, expressly pretermitted all relatives in 'blood or law,' and directed that the residue of her estate be paid to her physician and his wife for their joint lives, the remainder to specified charitable donees.  The will and codicil did not specifically mention the 70,000 shares of El Paso stock.  Taxpayers claimed ownership of the shares, asserting that in executing the stock powers Mrs. Van Wert had intended to make them a gift2 of the stock.

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Mrs. Van Wert's will and codicil were contested by 44 intestate heirs on the grounds of undue influence and lack of testamentary capacity, and several parties to the controversy objected to taxpayers' retention of the El Paso stock.  A settlement was reached in November,


trust.  The commuted value of taxpayers' joint life estate in the trust income was $716,919.91, based upon an expected joint life of 31.16 years, calculated through the use of the Commissioner's tables.

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On January 12, 1960, taxpayer, acting as co-executor of the estate, filed an amendment to Mrs. Van Wert's 1957 federal gift tax return, reporting the market value of the El Paso stock at the date of the 1957 transfer for gift tax purposes and paying a gift tax in the amount of $341,898.78.  In October, 1961 the estate filed a claim for refund of the gift tax paid pursuant to the amendment of this return.  The taxpayer, acting as co-executor of the estate, and the estate tax examiner, negotiated a compromise of this claimretained fee simple title to her share in the community and received nothing from her husband.  If she elected to take under the will she received a life interest in the income from her husband's share of the community but acceded to her husband's disposition of the remainder interest in her share.  In short, she exchanged the remainder interest in her share of the community for a life interest in her husband's share.  It was held that the widow acquired the life interest in the income from her husband's share by purchase and that 273 did not prohibit amortization of the commuted value of that interest.7  However Gist, by reference to such decisions as C.I.R. v. Siegel, 250 F.2d 339, 345-347 (9th Cir. 1957),


An American woman filmed her journey as he was evacuated from Wuhan, the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus that has killed more than 500 people.

Priscilla Dickey filmed and photographed her journey with her eight-year-old daughter, which included deserted city streets of the quarantined city, her cab driver wearing a hazmat suit, and people wearing masks in the airport.

At one stage before boarding, Dickey says to the camera while wearing a mask: “Now, it’s starring to finally hit me that I’m going to go America.”

The US, like many countries, is bringing home its citizens who are in Wuhan. Its keeping those its bringing home in quarantine in military bases for two weeks.

Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.

An American woman evacuated from China as the deadly coronavirus continues tospread filmed her journey and evacuation flight home with her 8-year-old daughter.

Priscilla Dickey filmed and photographed her journey to the US from the city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, which included being picked up by a cab driver in a hazmat suit, deserted city streets, and an airport filled with people wearing masks.

Dickey’s footage, shared with CNN, shows her being driven through the city of 11 million people, which appears almost completely empty as it undergoes a lockdown and its public transport links are severed, and a plane full of masked passengers.

At one stage, before boarding her flight chartered by the US State Department, Dickey says to the camera while wearing a mask: “Now, it’s starring to finally hit me that I’m going to go America.”

She


week after the family was unable to locate her eight-year-old daughter Priscilla’s passport in time.

An earlier evacuation flight was filmed by Jarred Evans, a US citizen who filmed his journey back last week.

Evans described Wuhan as a ghost town since the city’s lockdown began, and said he got multiple health checks on his flight back.

Wuhan is among a collection of cities under lockdown, affecting more than 50 million people.

You can watch his video, shared by CNN, here:

The virus has now killed more than 560 people, including two people outside of China.

The vast majority of cases are in China, where it has infected more than 27,000 people, and it has spread to at least 25 other countries.

The virus can spread from person to person, but health officials say theyin Afghanistan.

The report had an easy time finding traction among critics of the war, who say it indicates an Afghan mission on the brink of failure at a time of mounting anxiety among many Afghans.

With the 2014 deadline looming and the insurgency still far from defeated, many Afghans worry that it’s only a matter of time before instability even worse than the current situation grips the nation.

There have been a number of recent negative indicators. After years of a property boom in Kabul, real estate prices have been in decline since President Obama announced the start of the drawdown in June. Last year, the United Nations charted a record number of Afghan asylum seekers, and a number of investors have expressed concerns about putting their money into local


of the shoulder 2 and the bead 9; it takes a role of protecting the internal body ply 6.
Bead 9: A square or hexagonal wire bundle, wherein a rubber is coated on the steel wires; it takes a role of fitting and fixing the tire to a rim.
Inner liner 7: A part located inside the tire instead of a tube; it makes a pneumatic tire possible by preventing air leakage.
Cap ply 4: A special cord fabric located on the belt of a radial tire for some passenger cars; it minimizes the movement of the belt during driving.
Apex 8: A triangular rubber packing material used for minimizing the dispersion of the bead, protecting the bead by relieving the external shock, and preventing an air inflow during shaping.
Recently, developments fortires suitable for high speed driving are required as the passenger cars gentrify, and accordingly the stability during high speed driving and high durability of the tire are recognized as greatly important characteristics. Furthermore, the performance of the materials for the cap ply cord importantly comes to the force before everything else for satisfying the characteristics.
The steel belt inside the tire is generally arranged in the oblique direction, the steel belt, however, tends to move toward the circumferential direction during high speed driving, and there are some problems that the sharp ends of the steel belt may cause separation between the layers of the belt and shape deformation of the tire by cutting the rubber or generating cracks. The cap ply prevents the separation between the layers and


the deformation of the shape of the tire and takes a role of improving the high speed durability and the driving stability by restraining the movement of the steel belt.
A nylon 66 cord is mainly used for general cap ply cord. The nylon 66 cord can show the effect of restraining the movement of steel belt by generating high shrinkage force at the circumstance of high temperature corresponding to the internal circumstance of the tire during high speed driving, and wrapping the belt. However, it has disadvantages in that the nylon 66 cord may be deformed partially by the load of the tire and the car because it has low modulus and glass-transition temperature at high temperature and low dimensional stability according to this and it may clatterher makeup salon perfect, her nails a frosted pink that matched her sweater. "Hi, I'm Stella," she said with a brilliant smile, and Gemma felt instantly frumpy, fat, and ancient.

Nothing could have been better designed to make Gemma feel even more uncomfortable than being forced to ask for mineral water while the others drank martinis. Stella had a drinks tray ready, and as the others discussed the merits of olives and shaken versus stirred, Gemma looked round the sitting room she instantly dubbed Fifties Chic.

The room had two sets of French doors giving on to a balcony that overlooked Ebury Street. Around evergreen topiaries Stella had wound strings of tiny Christmas lights, and these were reflected in mirrors on the flat's interior walls, adding sparkle to the long,


WEST POINT, N.Y. - Army will play its final home game of the 2009 season on Saturday, as the Black Knights (3-6) host Virginia Military Institute (2-7, 1-5 Big South) on Military Appreciation Day at West Point's Michie Stadium.

The Black Knights will be going for their third home victory of the season, which would mark the second time in three seasons they have posted at least a .500 home record.

Army has lost a season-high three straight games after a 35-7 defeat at Air Force last week. The game was tied at 7-7 at halftime, but the Falcons were able to score 28 unanswered points in the second half.

Saturday's game against the Keydets, an NCAA FCS opponent, will feature a pair of option offenses. Army is ranked 13th inthroughout the contest. The Army Sports Network will be broadcast via SIRIUS (channel 152) Satellite Radio. Twitter updates (twitter.com/ArmyAthletics) will also be provided throughout the game.

A look at the matchups:

ARMY HEAD COACH RICH ELLERSON Alma Mater: Hawai'i, 1977 1st Season at Army (3-6, .333) 10th Season Overall (63-47, .573) Record vs. Air Force: 0-0

Freshman QB Trent Steelman is Army's top offensive producer with 552 rushing yards (61.3/game) and four rushing scores. He has started all nine games which is an Academy record for freshman quarterbacks. In his first game against a rival service academy, Steelman ran for 102 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries at Air Force. It was the first 100-yard rushing game by a plebe signal caller in Army history.

VMI Senior quarterback Kyle Hughes produced


and one touchdown behind a team-best 6.3 yard average, while Ehie has amassed 422 yards and a pair of scores on 96 carries (4.4 yard average).

VMI leading rusher Howard Abegesah rushed for 160 yards on 20 carries against Charleston Southern, giving him 325 yards rushing over a two-game span. It was the 12th career 100-yard rushing game of Abegesah's career and was the first time he had posted back-to-back 100-yard games since the last two games of 2008. Abegesah leads the Keydets in yards (766) and carries (138) and is tied for the team lead with five TDs.

WIDE RECEIVER

While Army senior WR Alejandro Villanueva has all four of the Black Knights' receiving touchdowns, Damion Hunter leads the way with 21 catches for 135 yards on the year. Villanuevaranks second with 17 receptions for 264 yards.

Mario Scott heads up the Ketdets' aerial attack with 224 receiving yards and three touchdowns. Junior WR Brian Barnson is tied for second with 10 catches for 175 yards. Maypray's 132 yards on 10 catches rank third on the team. He has two touchdowns so far.

OFFENSIVE LINE

Dating back to the Black Knights' 16-13 overtime win against Vanderbilt, Army has deployed the same starting lineup up front in LT Anees Merzi, LG Fritz Bentler, C Zach Peterson, RG Seth Reed, and RT Jason Johnson. The front five have paved the way for 1,947 rushing yards, and provided protection for Army QBs in the passing attack.

Conversely, VMI has listed eight different combinations across its offensive line through nine games so far. Versatile starters


50 total tackles lead the defensive front. Right defensive end Damiso Alexander is second on the defensive front with 28 hits, including 3.5 for loss. Patrick McKinney and Ben Brandt have shared duties at the left defensive end.

LINEBACKERS

The Army linebacking core suffered a key loss at Air Force last week in junior LB Stephen Anderson. Anderson currently leads the team in tackles and will be replaced in the lineup by freshman Kyler Martin, who will draw his first career start. Sophomore outside linebackers Steve Erzinger and Andrew Rodriguez both rank in the team's top five tacklers, and have filled vacancies due to graduation admirably thus far.

Keydet ILB A.J. Gross is second on the team and leads VMI's linebackers with 55 stops as a redshirt sophomore, with OLB EmilioCalvin holding down the No. 2 spot after collecting 54 tackles through nine games. Fellow OLB Kris Ware has a team-best 3.5 quarterback sacks.

SECONDARY

Junior free safety Donovan Travis ranks second on the team overall and is the secondary's leading tackler with 56 total stops. Travis has started 15 consecutive games which is tied for the second-longest streak in the Army secondary. He trails only senior CB Mario Hill, who has not missed a game in the last two seasons, starting a team-high 21 straight games.

VMI FS Byron Allen is the Keydets' top tackler with 91 hits. The redshirt sophomore also has 2.5 tackles for loss, two pass breakups, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery. Jaun Thrasher is the second-leading tackler in the secondary, and ranks fourth overall


with 52 tackles. He also has one of four VMI interceptions on the year.

SPECIAL TEAMS

Junior P Jonathan Bulls tied his career high with four punts inside the 20-yard line at Air Force last week. He nearly had a fifth, but the ball squirted out of the hands of an Army coverage man at the 1-yard line and rolled into the end zone. Bulls punted a career-high 10 times against the Falcons. He has a total of 19 kicks downed inside the opposition's 20-yard line so far, and is averaging 39.2 yards on 57 kicks this season.

On the other side, the Keydets have blocked three punts this season after enduring a drought of nearly four years. Last week against Liberty, freshman Stefawn Ross recorded a block, marking the firsttime since Oct. 14, 2000 that VMI had blocked a punt on the road. Each of the Keydets' last 12 blocked punts had all come at home.

UP NEXT

The Black Knights take a trip to the Lone Star State to face North Texas on Nov. 21. It is Army's final game before taking on arch-rival Navy on Dec. 12. The Black Knights and Big Green have met twice before with Army scoring victories in bouth outings. Army's last trip to Denton resulted in a 27-10 victory during the 1996 season. The Black Knights defeated North Texas, 25-14, at Michie Stadium in 1997.


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THE | Spouter's Companion; | OR, | THEATRICAL REMEMBRANCER: | CONTAINING | A Select Collection of the most esteemed | PROLOGUES and EPILOGUES | WHICH HAVE BEEN SPOKEN | By the most celebrated PERFORMERS. | TOGETHER WITH | VARIETY of CURIOUS ORIGINALS, | Written on Purpose for this WORK: | AMONG WHICH ARE | Several PROLOGUES and EPILOGUES, | To be spoken in the Characters of | BLOODS, BUCKS, CHOICE SPIRITS, | FRIBBLES, BRAVOS, &c. | TOGETHER WITH | A NEW PROLOGUE ON EPILOGUES, | AND | An EPILOGUE ON PROLOGUES. | To which is added, | The SPOUTER'S MEDLEY: | Containing select Parts of the most celebrated Comedies and | Tragedies, contrasted inGarden Rental

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Under his leadership, the site grew to be the "premier website of the 'alt-right' — a loose-knit group of white nationalists and unabashed anti-Semites and racists," as the Anti-Defamation League has put it — and began using the term "Big Gay Hate Machine" in 2015 in headlines and in copy of stories related to gay rights advocacy organizations — sometimes dubbed "the militant LGBT lobby" by the site — pushing for equality.Kayoko Shibata

is a Japanese actress, singer, and model. She is best known for her roles as Mariko in the movie Ju-on and as Matsuri Tatsumi/GoPink in the tokusatsu Super Sentai television series Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive, in which she was credited as . She also reprised her role in two more occasions, first in the Super Sentai Crossover Film Timeranger Vs GogoFive and then in Episode 23 of the 35th Super Sentai Series Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger

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Zeddie Little was running a 10 kilometre race in his hometown, when he turned to smile and wave at a friend.

That innocuous gesture was photographed and unexpectedly transformed him into the latest internet celebrity: "Ridiculously Photogenic Guy".

It all started when photographer Will King posted pictures of the Cooper River Bridge Run, held in Charleston, South Carolina, USA, to his Flickr page and shared them on Reddit at the end of March.

The photograph of Mr Little eventually went viral, inspired a hugely popular Facebook fan page, Twitter followers, parody photos and more than one million views of the original photograph.friendly remark, tending towards "making up" the little difference that has arisen between you, let your reply be distinctly more friendly.
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"...we want him to know that Christmas wishes come true"

For most, Christmas comes the same time every year. But for 9-year-old Jacob Thompson, a cancer patient with Stage 4 High Risk Neuroblastoma, the festive day is arriving early — and it will be his last. According to the GoFundMe page set up by Jacob's mother, the family admitted him to Barbara Bush Children's Hospital on October 11 with the understanding that he would pass away within a month.Jacob has been fighting Neuroblastoma, cancer that forms in nerve cells early on, since he was diagnosed at age 5. It has spread to his head and hip, and treatment was deemed unsuccessful. Since Jacob is bed-ridden and has limited time left with his loved ones, they are bringing Christmas tohim next weekend.On the big day, his room will transform into a winter wonderland — snow, sparkling tree and all (even Santa). But Jacob has one request: cards from anyone "inspired to reach out" to help bring the Christmas cheer. He has already started receiving cards. The first, from his friend, pictured a decked-out penguin (his favorite animal). According to Jacob's mother, Michelle Thompson Simard, "live like a penguin," is a motto of his. She tells GoodHousekeeping.com, that in Jacob's words, this means "be friendly, stand by each other, go the extra mile, jump into life and be cool.""Jacob loves the holiday season," Thompson Simard said, "and we want him to know that Christmas wishes come true and that there are good people who care all around the


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Jacob has been fighting Neuroblastoma, cancer that forms in nerve cells early on, since he was diagnosed at age 5. It has spread to his head and hip, and treatment was deemed unsuccessful.

Since Jacob is bed-ridden and has limited time left with his loved ones, they are bringing Christmas to him next weekend.

On the big day, his room will transform into a winter wonderland — snow, sparkling tree and all (even Santa). But Jacob has one request: cards from anyone "inspired to reach out" to help bring the Christmas cheer.

He has already started receiving cards. The first, from his friend, pictured a decked-out penguin (his favorite animal). According to Jacob's mother, Michelle Thompson Simard, "live like a penguin,"1988: Three Italian Aermacchi MB-339 fighter jets collide in midair at the Ramstein air base in Germany, killing 70 people and causing serious injuries to 346 others. It's one of the worst air show disasters in history.

The accident occurred at the culmination of a complex maneuver by Frecce Tricolori, Italy's military stunt-flight team. Known as "the pierced heart," the exercise calls for two groups of aircraft to form a large heart shape in front of the audience, with a solo jet flying through the lower tip of the heart at the completion of the trick. The culmination of this maneuver occurs only 135 feet above the crowd. When performed flawlessly, the stunt is exhilarating.

But with all the close-quarters aerial maneuvering, there's zero margin for error.

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error occurred at the end of the stunt. The piercing aircraft piloted by Lt. Col. Ivo Nutarelli came in too low and too fast at the end of the maneuver. The pilot of a nearby plane, Lt. Col. Mario Naldini was unable to compensate for Nutarelli's mistake.

The nose of Nutarelli's plane collided with Naldini's tail section at around 300 miles per hour causing Nutarelli's plane to disintegrate. Naldini's plane, now completely out of control, clipped a third jet in the formation, piloted by Captain Giorgio Alessio. His plane then crashed into a Black Hawk med-evac helicopter on a taxiway near the runway, killing the copter's pilot.

Worse yet, a fireball of shrapnel and jet fuel from the initial impact of the Nutarelli and Naldini planes exploded onto the crowdof thousands just a few hundred feet below.

All three pilots were killed. Nutarelli and Naldini both died on impact. The pilot of the third plane, Captain Alessio, managed to eject but was killed when his chute didn't open — his egress occurred at too low an altitude.

The observing crowd bore the brunt of the impact. A blazing cauldron of petroleum and white-hot shrapnel from Nutarelli's plane rained down on hundreds of spectators. Thirty-one people died outright at the scene. Another 36 succumbed to their injuries in the ensuing weeks — mostly of severe burn trauma. Almost 500 people had to receive medical attention.

Compounding the tragedy, enormous snafus took place in the emergency response. Because the accident happened on an American military base, German ambulances were not allowed to


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The European Commission has revised its rules for the assessment of co-operation agreements between competitors, so called horizontal co-operation agreements. As it is often vital for companies to work together to achieve synergies, there exist a vast number of horizontal co-operation agreements in many industries.

“Horizontal co-operation agreements” are agreements concluded between competitors (as opposed to vertical agreements which are between companies at different levels in the supply chain), for example with a view to co-operate on research anddo not fulfil the safe harbour criteria, to allow companies to assess whether they are in line with EU competition law.

The European Commission has adopted a Regulation (see Commission Regulation (EU) No 330/2010 of 20 April 2010 on the application of Article 101(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to categories of vertical agreements and concerted practices) block exempting agreements between manufacturers and distributors for the sale of products and services.

The Regulation and accompanying Guidelines take into account the development, in the last 10 years, of the Internet as a force for online sales and for cross-border commerce, something that the Commission wants to promote as it increases consumer choice and price competition.

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Yellow Coralroot, Corallorhiza trifida, is one of four species in this genus found in the Pacific Northwest. It’s also the one that has been eluding me for several years. Back in 2003 and 2004 when I was chasing wildflowers all over Washington and Oregon I spent parts of several days hunting for it in places where I’d been reliably informed that it grew. Each time I came up empty and in the end Phyllis and I left it out of Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest.
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Law at 7 (citing Durkin Dep. at 27-28). Apparently, when Mango attempted to assist Plaintiff, Vaccaro and McKenna, along with another female employee who harassed Plaintiff, Lydia Roberts ("Roberts"), acted out against him. The women hung a voodoo doll of Mango and beat it with sticks when he walked into the room. See Durkin Dep. at 44, 389; Def. R. 56.1 Stmt. ¶ 90. On one occasion, they chased Mango, and Roberts screamed at and pushed him. See Durkin Dep. at 388-89.
In October 2001, Vaccaro and another female employee, Sue McLynn, came to work with their bras stuffed and wearing name tags with the name "Anne," claiming that they were dressing up as Plaintiff for Halloween. See Durkin Dep. at 43-44, 146-48. A male co-worker took photos ofthe objective and subjective prongs. Objectively, a reasonable person could find that the often daily comments and physical conductincluding the incident in which a co-worker tore open Plaintiff's shirt and exposed her breaststhat spanned more than a year created a hostile environment. Subjectively, there is no question that Plaintiff found the environment to be hostile. In Plaintiff's own words, she felt like she "was in prison" and spent each day just trying to "make it to the end of the day." See Durkin Dep. at 37-38. When Plaintiff went on leave in October 2001, leaving in the middle of the work day, she did so because "mentally [she] couldn't take no more." See Durkin *133 Dep. at 164-65. She then spent the following year on leave, feeling "totally


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Justina resorted to sneaking notes, hidden in origami, to tell her family what she wasn’t allowed to say around eavesdroppers. Hospital staff pushed her to do things she was physically incapable of, due to the physical condition they refused to acknowledge she has. They laughed at her as she struggled futilely. They left her on a toilet for hours when she couldn’t void her bowels. They left her secluded in a bare room, or alone in the hallway, sometimes for days when she couldn’t wheel herself elsewhere.

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Read Gottesfeld’s full statement here.

Gottesfeldto hire black entertainers to perform for white audiences. Sam T. Jack’s Creole Show, founded 1890 was the instrument of this breakthrough. Many folks we’ve written about in these annals got their crucial start there.

He also may have been the first person to bring the cooch dance to burlesque. This is quite possible, he was based in Chicago at the same time that Little Egypt made her debut at the World Columbian Exposition. He also presented nude “artistic” tableaux vivant on stage back when such things were mighty scandalous indeed. So he was a very influential man.

Jack had his finger in many theatrical pies, and in the true entrepenurial spririt his principal aim seems to have been making a buck. Born in 1852, he served briefly as a


soldier and then was in the oil business in western Pennsylvania before opening the Oil City Opera in 1872. He subsequently opened other opera houses (specializing in melodrama) in nearby Franklin and Titusville,and ran a showboat from 1873-77 before managing the Alice Oates Comic Opera Company, which toured the country 1880-84. His first burlesque show was the Lilly Clay Colossal Gaiety Company (the star of which he brought over from England, claiming Miss Clay was the equal of Jenny Lind). He also subsequently ran the Madison Street Opera in Chicago, the Ada Richmond Folly Co., the 40 Thieves Co., the Mazeppa Co., The French Spy Co, etc, at least according to his flack.

More dubious, but also more entertaining, are portions of his book that tell us about “HowConnect

Forensic Science Program

The forensic science degree at EKU was established in 1974, making it one of the longest-standing programs in the United States.

Is Forensic Science for ME???

Forensic Science is NOT what you see on the famous CSI television series. If you become a Forensic Scientist you will:

Accept and log in evidence

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Offer testimony in court about some cases

Why EKU?

The Forensic Science Program at Eastern Kentucky University is one of the oldest forensic science programs in the country. It has a national reputation for excellence in undergraduate education in Forensic Science and is one of only 18 undergraduate programs in the U.S. that has received accreditation from the American


A blue-ribbon panel led by former New York state Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman will recommend closing Rikers Island — and potentially replacing it with a series of new jails spread across the city’s five boroughs, The Post has learned.

The 10-year plan also calls for slashing Rikers’ population by putting hordes of jailbirds back on the streets under “supervised release,” a source familiar with the commission’s work said Thursday.

The violence-plagued correction complex is currently home to around 10,000 inmates, about 80 percent of whom are locked up awaiting trial.

Lippman plans to release a report with the recommendations Sunday, the source said.

The Post spotted Lippman entering City Hall early Thursday evening, and he spent about 90 minutes meeting with both Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito.

Whenthat would distribute the inmates evenly across the boroughs, the source said.

Pursuing that plan would be politically perilous, as shown by the fate of former Staten Island Borough President Ralph Lamberti, who cut a failed deal to put a jail in the Rossville neighborhood in exchange for the closure of homeless shelters.

Lamberti, a Democrat, was ousted in 1989 by Republican Guy Molinari, who pounded him on the issue.

De Blasio, Mark-Viverito and Lippman all declined comment following their meeting.

Additional reporting by Aaron Short and Bruce Golding


Aegibong Peak Observatory, where you can catch a glimpse of life in North Korea behind the DMZ. From the observatory, you can see Gaeseong city in North Korea and the military installations that are dotted along the DMZ. North Korea also set up a fake rural model village in this area as a propaganda tool. After this, you will stop by Yeonmijeong Pavilion and see the Han and Imjingang Rivers merge into the sea while enjoying lunch. In the afternoon, visit several more points of interest along the border area and stop by for souvenirs at a local Amethyst Factory or Ginseng Center before heading back to your hotel.

Visit naval warships docked in Daemyeong Harbour

Learn more about the Korean War which divided the country

See life in North Koreathe conclusion of the Cold War.

On Friday, US warships started unloading the military hardware, which includes 87 tanks and 144 Bradley fighting vehicles, in the northern German port of Bremerhaven, from where they would be transported by rail and road to Poland. The US troops first arrived in the German city before starting to move to Wroclaw.

Troops will be on rotation in Poland and beyond for between four and six months and will cooperate with local units. The US also aims to conduct a joint military exercise with Poland, which will kick off at the end of January.

Moscow has already lambasted the move as “truly aggressive.”

US military trucks and Humwees, which arrived by ship, are unloaded in the harbor of Bremerhaven, Germany, January 8, 2017. (Photo by Reuters)

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                          BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Police say seven Lehigh University football players have been charged in an off-campus break-in meant as revenge, but they targeted the wrong students’ home.

Bethlehem police say two men in the house used a university football roster to identify the suspects in the Nov. 8 intrusion. They told police the men kicked in the doors as they slept and one was punched in the face.

Police say the group was seeking revenge for an alleged attack on a fraternity president.

According to Lehigh Valley Live, Brian Githens was charged in November with simple assault, accused of punching the man. The student was treated at a local hospital for a concussion and a busted lip.

Six more players — identified as Jacob Scott, Maxwell Frankel, Dylan J. Parsons, Noah Scott


such as the Stutz Monte Carlo.

So when we combine Charles Weymann’s bodywork with the highest possible quality interior and fit them onto Stutz’s legendary engine and chassis you finish up with one of the most desirable luxury cars ever created.

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On this episode of Return to the ’80s, Robert and Paul welcome Ty Ray, from the Beats and Eats podcast, to the show. The guys Return to 1981, and count down the year’s top songs, movies, and television shows. Also, find out what the biggest selling toys were in 1981, and reminisce on the big news stories of the year.

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Jun 2 Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be

Jun 5 AIDS Epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles

Jun 12 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, theirwhich Diamond, Bayer Sager and Bacharach had all seen together.

This classic duet is from the film, An Officer and a Gentleman (which I have yet to see). The movie’s producer, Don Simpson, demanded “Up Where We Belong” be cut from An Officer and a Gentleman, saying, “The song is no good. It isn’t a hit.” (Sounds like a Trump tweet. Oh shit, here come the comments and emails!). It’s a good thing Simpson was a movie producer, and not a music producer. The song was a #1 hit in the US for three weeks, won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song. It also won the BAFTA Film Awards for Best Original Song in 1984. Cocker and Warnes also


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officer kicks his legs apart and slams his face into the side of the cruiser.

In the meantime, another officer is attempting to rip Harper’s 2-year-old daughter from her arms.

“If that’s the way you typically stop people of color, or anybody in this city, you are asking for problems in the streets of this city,” said Rev. Jarrett Maupin, who held a press conference with the family on Wednesday.

According to the family, the entire incident stemmed from their daughter walking out of Family Dollar store with a doll.

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facilities. Katikati has a good selection of cafes, restaurants and take away places if you want a meal out.
Our garden is a tonic for the mind, body and soul - come and unwind and restore yourself in the peace of nature.

Katikati is a delightful small town, 45 minutes drive from Tauranga on State Highway 2. We are just north of the town, rural but not too far away from the coffee shops, restaurants, beaches and walkways that make Katikati a great place to visit.

Our stay with Maureen was simply wonderful. She has thought of everything a guest could wish for from the fridge, kettle, breakfast supplies and so many other extras. The setting is quite magnificent with a tranquil garden graced with bird song and a recent arrivalboast more depth in their lineups.

Fortunately for him, Cheseapeake is still in a position to contend in the county and beyond. The Cougars wrap up their season with an away game at Northeast on May 3.

The top of Chesapeake’s order is set, but Ellenberger said he is still tweaking the lineup.

Junior shortstop Emily Kirby leads off the lineup, and she’s hitting .405 with 14 runs scored. Hunter Royston, one of two freshmen to make the team, bats second. In her last three games, she went 8 for 9 with 6 RBI.

“All she does is get on,” Ellenberger said. “Got good speed and can play defense, so she was a very pleasant surprise.”

Senior captain Olivia Ravadge, who set the Maryland state record for single-season RBI with 54 last season,


NFL Foundation Commits $45 Million to USA Football

The National Football League Foundation has approved a $45 million grant to USA Football to support the growth of youth football, it was announced today. The grant will provide funding for USA Football over the next five years.

USA Football, the official youth football development partner of the NFL and its 32 teams, will use the grant to support youth and high school football through its Heads Up Football, NFL Punt, Pass & Kick, and NFL FLAG programs.

The funds will help bring Heads Up Football to all 10,000 youth football leagues across the country. In the first year of Heads Up Football in 2013, more than 2,700 youth leagues registered for the program, representing approximately 600,000 players and 90,000 coaches. The NFLFoundation grant will expand Heads Up Football to the high school level, providing continuity in fundamentals, terminology, and health and safety protocols from the youth to the high school level. USA Football piloted Heads Up Football in 35 high schools in 10 states in 2013.

Additionally, USA Football will grow the NFL FLAG and NFL Punt, Pass & Kick programs. NFL FLAG powered by USA Football is the premier youth flag football league for boys and girls ages 5-17. A program of NFL PLAY 60, FLAG provides young players with an opportunity to play non-contact football and learn lessons about sportsmanship and teamwork, while also getting their 60 minutes of daily physical activity. More than 220,000 boys and girls ages 5-17 currently participate in NFL FLAG. NFL Punt, Pass


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Furniture, cooking wares, clothing, works of art, and many other kinds of artifacts are part of what knit people into communities and cultures. The Museum’s collections feature artifacts from European Americans, Latinos, Arab Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, African Americans, Gypsies, Jews, and Christians, both Catholics and Protestants. The objects range from ceramic face jugs made by enslaved African Americans in South Carolina to graduation robes and wedding gowns. The holdings also include artifacts associated with education, such as teaching equipment, textbooks, and two complete schoolrooms. Uniforms, insignia, and other objects represent a wide variety of civic and voluntary organizations, including youth and fraternal groups, scouting, police forces, and firefighters.

The "Queen of Country Music," Kitty Wells, (Ellen Muriel Deason, b. 1918) emerged in 1952 asthe first female country vocalist to win and sustain major stardom. Her release, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,"--a lyrical response to Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life"--was a hit. Wells and her husband, Johnny Wright, continued to work a full schedule well into the 1990s.

Henry Horenstein photographed Hank Williams Jr., the son of legendary singer Hank Williams, leaving his tour bus. Williams Jr. (b. 1949) spent his early career singing his father's songs in his own style. After a 1974 suicide attempt and a mountain climbing accident in 1975, he revamped his own image, modeling it after rowdy southern rockers. Later he was considered part of the Outlaw Country Movement.

Pearl Butler accepts a song request from a young fan. Pearl (1927-1998) and Carl Butler


(1927-1992) were part of the honky-tonk and bluegrass music movements before World War II. After their 1962 hit, "Don't Let Me Cross Over," the Butlers became one of the most popular male-female vocal teams in country music.

The youngest of the three Carter Sisters, Anita began performing with Mother Maybelle and the Carter Family at age four. She performed with her mother and sisters throughout her career, though she found success of her own during the 1950s. Anita (1933-1999) was the first to record the song "Ring of Fire," written by her sister June (1929-2003). It later became a hit for her brother-in-law Johnny Cash.

Maybelle Carter (1909-1978) was an original member of the performing Carter Family. After the breakup of that group in 1943, she formed a new act,known as Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, with daughters Helen (1927-1998) shown here on accordian, June and Anita. Maybelle was an influential presence, particularly as the originator of a style of guitar playing emulated by Leadbelly, Woodie Guthrie, and many other musicians.

Henry Horenstein's photographs of fans swarming Ernest Tubb (1914-1984) was a familiar scene. Fans had many opportunities to see, hear, and hug Tubb. Between the early 1960s and 1982, he worked 150 to 200 shows each year.

For much of his career, Ernest Tubb, the "Texas Troubadour" was considered the ultimate honky tonk vocalist and stylist. Inspired by Jimmie Rodgers in the 1920s, Tubb sustained a musical career that at times also branched into film and television. No artist toured as much, or for as long as


Ernest Tubb, who worked 150 to 200 shows each year between the early 1960s and 1982. No artist was kinder to his fans, and no fans were more loyal to their star. Ernest Tubb had one national fan club with a single president for its entire existence between 1944 and its deactivation in the early 1990s.

For much of his career, Ernest Tubb, the "Texas Troubadour" was considered the ultimate honky tonk vocalist and stylist. Inspired by Jimmie Rodgers in the 1920s, Tubb sustained a musical career that at times also branched into film and television. No artist toured as much, or for as long as Ernest Tubb, who worked 150 to 200 shows each year between the early 1960s and 1982. No artist was kinder to his fans,In 2014, two years after she was first elected to the Senate, Elizabeth Warren took on President Obama in an unlikely fight that cemented her status as a leader of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing.

The Massachusetts Democrat turned a little-known nominee for an obscure Treasury Department job into a poster child for Wall Street’s controversial ties to Democrats.

Warren won — stopping Antonio Weiss, the former head of investment banking for the financial advisory firm Lazard, from becoming undersecretary for domestic finance.

It was an early sign of Warren’s ability to galvanize liberals, much as she’s doing in the 2020 presidential race, by stoking long-simmering intraparty battles. Warren and Obama repeatedly clashed over policy, tactics and personnel, boosting her profile but drawing accusations of grandstanding and rigidity.

“President Obama was the


after Democrats lost badly in midterm congressional elections, giving Republicans control of the Senate.

Some Democrats believed Weiss could win Senate approval in the brief lame duck period when Democrats still held the majority. If not, they’d need to compromise with Republicans.

Warren blew those plans up when she came out against Weiss days after he was nominated.

She cited roughly $20 million in stock awards he was given when he left Lazard, and his work advising Burger King and Tim Horton’s, a Canadian doughnut chain, on a merger that allowed the combined company to take advantage of Canada’s lower corporate tax rate.

But most of all, she cited his time on Wall Street.

Warren had been frustrated for years with the Democratic establishment’s close relationship with Wall Street, one that dated toelse,” Obama told Yahoo News, rejecting Warren’s argument that the pact would allow the unraveling of consumer financial protections.

At the time, some supporters urged Warren to challenge Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Warren did not run, but the push sent Clinton a message.

Some allies say Warren was driven by conviction to fight against Weiss but that she also sought to protect her left flank from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who ran in 2016 and remains among the top contenders for 2020.

Warren interacted with Weiss publicly once, when he testified before the Senate Banking Committee in April 2016, more than a year after the nomination fight. Warren sometimes berates public officials in public hearings, relying on her years of debate experience to puncture their arguments in


a blood-alcohol content of at least .15 percent.

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waiting room of the Foot and Ankle Institute in Indianapolis when he noticed Stutz.

Stutz caught his attention because “she seemed a little loud in talking to somebody . . . .”

(Tr. 6). At one point, Blake heard Stutz excuse herself to make some phone calls “and

then when she came back and passed by [him],” he smelled theoffense

of driving while intoxicated, requiring that the conviction on Count 2 be vacated.

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        Having found identity of harm or risk of harm in the two subject alcohol


delivery system typically includes a voltage source followed by several stages of decoupling capacitors. When used herein, a decoupling stage (or “stage”) is a division of a power delivery system, such as circuit including a set of capacitors and possibly other components or equipment. A decoupling stage may include parasitic inherent resistive and inductive elements. The power source (often termed Vreg or Vemf) is typically a DC supply supplying a certain voltage or set of voltages from the processed output of the ultimate power source—typically a battery or the processed output of an AC supply. The power source usually cannot respond quickly to fast current demand changes; in response to such changes the voltage supplied may fluctuate greatly.
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BANDAR SERIL BEGAWAN, Brunei, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The Asian sultanate of Brunei will expand the use of the Sharia law penal code but the country's British-styled civil law will remain.

Sharia law in Brunei already covers some family issues, including aspects of marriages, deaths and inheritances and bans the sale and consumption of alcohol.

Expansion of Sharia, which will apply only to Muslims, will be in phases over a 6-month period starting in April, The Brunei Times reported.

The country's civil courts will continue to operate under English civil law that has been used since the country was a British protectorate.

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The announcement was made by Hassanal Bolkiah, sultan of Brunei Darussalam, in an address to the educational and legal conference Knowledge Convention in the capitalcare and education.

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Brunei is on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Asia's South China Sea and occupies 1 percent of the island -- about 2,220 square miles.

The country is surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak and separated into two by the Sarawak district of Limbang. To the south is Indonesian territory.

Brunei gained independence in January 1984, becoming a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies and protectorates. Also that year it joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference, which is now called the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Sunni Islam is the religion for around two-thirds of the population, with 13 percent Buddhist and 10 percent Christian. With some


and there are methods that are just and fair," Abdul Aziz said.

He also decried the U.N. call in 2007 for a moratorium on the death penalty.

An official visit to Brunei was on U.S. President Barack Obama's Asia trip planned for this fall that was to have included the Asia-Pacific Summit in Indonesia. However, the White House canceled the trip because of the recent U.S. government shutdown.handing it over to them in the audience. “Front row seat, ty dolla sign handed me his guitar for me to have, and I’m on Chris Browns Instagram 💀 for my first concert, I’d say that was the ultimate concert experience 😭,” one fan tweeted.

On Monday, a short video clip went viral that showed a young boy at the IndiGOAT concert making his way down the stairs that led to the stage. When he arrives at the front of the crowd, he is greeted by Ty who gives him a hug and gifts him with his guitar. As the boy walks away, Ty is the in background bowing toward him. The boy, overwhelmed with emotion, begins crying uncontrollably. The woman recording, presumably, his mother, comforts him before the


the Arctic.

After analyzing five years of recordings of bowhead whale songs, she and her team found the animals frequently changed their songs over the season. She also found no examples of a song being reused from year to year.

"This study is really interesting and exciting," says Laela Sayigh, a marine biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who wasn't involved in the new research.

"Amazing, Wild Sounds"

Stafford became interested in bowhead whales by accident. When her colleague, Kristin Laidre, traveled to West Greenland in 2007 to study narwhals, Stafford asked her to record the marine mammals' songs.

A few weeks later, at her parents' house in Oregon, Stafford gets a phone call from Greenland. Laidre was on the line, asking, “What the heck is this?”

She played back "amazing, wild sounds," Staffordconsumer is usually recorded by positioning one or more cameras within an area and having the consumer utilize the product within that area. One drawback with recording consumers in this manner is that the recordings typically fail to provide a perspective from the consumer's point of view. Another potential drawback is that the systems and methods often fail to capture any sounds (e.g., comments made by the consumer) which are associated with the consumer using the product.
Another drawback with conventional consumer recording techniques is that the consumer typically utilizes the product in a fabricated environment instead of an environment where the product is normally used (e.g., a home). Consumers may use products differently in a fabricated environment versus a natural environment. Therefore, recording a consumer in an unnatural


Washington (CNN) Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe slammed President Donald Trump on Sunday for pardoning controversial former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, calling it a "bad decision" and saying its timing after the violence in Charlottesville made it even worse.

In an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union," the Democratic governor said that after the deadly, racially motivated clashes in the Virginia city, it was time to unite against racism.

"It is time for reconciliation," McAuliffe said.

Trump pardoned Arpaio on Friday evening. A federal judge had convicted Arpaio last month of criminal contempt for continuing to racially profile Latinos in defiance of a court order.

McAuliffe also said Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville was not sufficient and disputed Trump's characterization that "both sides" -- white supremacistsgoing to threaten our constitutional order," Bossert said.

And citing hurricane response, Bossert said he doubted the pardon would register much with the public.

"My guess is that not too many people care about this one guy right now," he said.

Trump's decision to pardon Arpaio came after weeks of criticism of the President from all sides for his response to Charlottesville.

Last week, a UN committee issued a warning to the United States about racism and hate crimes, saying US leaders had not sufficiently condemned white supremacy.

Asked about the committee's criticism, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the US was committed to freedom and "equal treatment of people the world over."

"I don't believe anyone doubts the American people's values," Tillerson said on "Fox News Sunday."

Anchor Chris Wallace then asked, "And the


Aquatic Development Frontier in the Philippines

November 21, 2008

Aquatic Development Frontier in the Philippines

The objective of this paper is to explore the prospect of the aquatic development in the Philippines and provide insight to the phenomenon (of aquatic development). For the initial readings the class have been given two papers written by the professor himself:

A Paradigm Shift in the Philippine Development: Marine and Aquatic Dimensions of Development for the Philippine Islands and their Ecological Implications

A Socio-Economic Geography of the Laguna lake Resources (1961 – 1985) and its Implications to Aquatic Management and Development in the Philippine Islands.

The concluding parts of both readings can be summarized into a policy call to development to consider environment, culture and implications of new technology implementations by the oligarchs that leads to :

Displacement andthe previous section.

Research and Development on a Typhoon Environment

Fishpens fall and rice paddies become lakes. Research and Development of infrastructure for agriculture and aquaculture should consider resilience of the structure from a typhoon. The Philippines will always be hit by a typhoon because it is on a global space called a typhoon belt. Consider that when a major storm ravages the Philippines, economic losses amount to millions.

Mindset of the People and the Church

The only societal structure that can influence the whole economic system is the Church. Unfortunately, the significant number of clergies in the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines is just bent in rubbing elbows with the matrons of the rich corrupt government officials and tax evading businessmen in their own parishes. So is with their leaders,


to check the moving parts that are between the frames of the locomotive, and also to oil up these parts. This is all much easier to do if there is a pit to work from.

Constructing this pit involved extending the existing outdoor pit, and so this had to be done before any other construction work. It also had to be completed before the detailed design work on the building could start, just in case the excavations for the pit uncovered any problems with the ground that might affect the design.

3. Detailed design and tendering

As illustrated in the page for the overall project, the building was constructed round a steel framework, with a brick dado wall for the lower parts of the walls, and with the upper parts oftender being accepted and a contractor appointed.

The third stage was then that the contractor had to carry out the specialised calculations that are needed to ensure that the foundations and frame of the building are strong enough (for instance, to resist loads from wind blowing on the sides or ends, or snow building up on the roof), and to complete the detailed design. They then obtained the formal Building Regulations approval from Leeds City Council, so as to ensure that when constructed the building is safe to use.

4. Construct foundations

As soon as the design of the building had been completed, and Building Regulations approval obtained, work could start on the next phase, which was the construction of the foundations. We had originally expected to do much of this


and it had to be constructed so that it matches exactly the foundations and the cladding sheets. Despite this, though, this phase was the shortest, and it took less than a week.

6. Roofing, cladding and brickwork

Once the steel frame was in place, then the original plan had been that work could start on fitting the cladding sheets for the walls and roof. This too was done by the main contractor, since they were also supplying the cladding sheets. In practice, though, the advice from the contractors was that once the cladding sheets for the roof had been fitted, then it would be better to lay the bricks next, and finally fit the cladding sheets for the walls to match the brickwork.

So, once they had constructed the roof, thenadministrative complaint against Trans Union, alleging that Trans Union violated the FCRA by selling consumer reports in the form of prescreened lists to third parties for improper purposes. An administrative law judge ultimately ruled that Trans Union violated the FCRA by selling the lists. However, Trans Union elected to appeal the FTC's decision and continued to sell the target marketing information. At the time the present action was filed, Trans Union was still pursuing appeals of the FTC's decision. Trans Union did not stop selling consumer information from its databases until roughly 2002.
On August 31, 1998, Joshua Frey filed a complaint against Trans Union in Orange County, California, based on allegations similar to those in the FTC complaint. The plaintiff alleged, inter alia, that Trans Union "sells the


on June 16, 1999. Thereafter, on July 13, 1999, Trans Union submitted a letter disclosing the FTC litigation, the Frey suit, and two additional consumer suits which had been filed since its application was submitted. The first additional suit was filed by Marci Martinelli in California on January 28, 1999. The second additional suit was filed by *724 Michael Rosen in California on February 11, 1999. Like the FTC litigation and the Frey suit, the Martinelli and Rosen suits were based on, inter alia, allegations that Trans Union improperly sold consumer information to third parties in violation of the FCRA.
When the Underwriters received notice of these claims, Essex wrote an e-mail to Mary Gander that "large eyebrows were raised." However, the Underwriters did not change their decision toOSLO - Norwegian police apologized for the first time on Monday for their complicity in the deportation and murder of over 700 Jews during the Nazi occupation in World War Two, just months after the prime minister made a formal apology "Norwegian police officers participated in the arrest and deportation of Jews," police chief Odd Reidar Humlegaard said on the 70th anniversary of Norway deporting the first group of Jews to Auschwitz."It is fitting that I express my regret for the role police played in the arrest and deportation of these completely innocent victims," he said.Vidkun Quisling, Norway's leader during the Nazi occupation whose name has become a synonym for traitor, ordered the registration of Jews in 1942 and the state apparatus played a complicit role in their


eventual deportation.Norway acknowledged the state's role in 1998 and paid some $60 million to Norwegian Jews and Jewish organizations in compensation for property seized.But the move fell short of a full apology, causing further national debate and the establishment of a Holocaust research center. Current prime minister Jens Stoltenberg only made a formal apology earlier this year.Norway's Jewish population rose to around 2,100 by 1942 from 1,700 before the war as refugees from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia fled the continent.Authorities eventually deported 772, of whom only 34 survived. Others either stayed in hiding or fled to neighboring Sweden, which protected its Jewish population and also accepted around 8,000 Danish Jews.Friday, February 19, 2016

It seems the movie adaptation of The Dark Tower is very very slowly moving forward. Deadline is reporting that Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) has been cast in the role of Tirana. The character is described as "she’s sexy and dangerous, she has fake human skin and cold snake-like eyes. She doesn’t come in until the seventh volume, apparently, but she’s going to be starring in the first film." I read the seventh book and I don't recall the character. Based on looking at various Dark Tower sites, she apparently an incredibly minor character described as "A low woman in the Dixie Pig." The use of the name could be to clear any legal problems (yep the names of characters in movies and TV


are you ok?” She reached out and took her new friend’s shoulder in her hand and shook her gently. May started to panic. She reached into her coat pocket and pulled out her mobile phone unsure of whether to call an ambulance or her Mum. She opted to call her Mum and was about to hit the green dial button when Beth began to mumble.

“Beth? What did you say?” May leaned in to hear. As she did so Beth coughed and from her mouth came a plume of black glittering powder that smelled sickly sweet. May thought of the seaside as she collapsed over the prone body of her friend.

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May sat up alone in the field, the stone gone and the sky dark. Very dark. Looking around sheanyone. No Beth, no signal, no Mum. May took a deep breath of the sickly air and climbed to her feet looking around as she did so. With Beth nowhere to be seen May decided to walk back to the road and to find a grown up, or go home to her Mum, and to fetch help.

Walking back towards the woods and the road, the dark of King’s Hill looming over her, she became aware that the darkness of the hill wasn’t the hill at all. It was more the lack of the hill. Where the hill had been there was now just a black space in the shape of the hill. She couldn’t see through to the field beyond but as she moved around it the field


behind emerged as it would had the hill been there. May walked closer to the hill; its strangeness drawing her forward til she was nearly at the base of where it should have been.

The nothingness loomed above as she looked at and into the space. She looked down as though she were staring through the hill, through the ground. May’s stomach lurched. She felt as though she was falling forwards into the void before her whilst also being pulled upwards and away. In that moment of nausea what she was seeing became monstrously clear; the hill that wasn’t the hill was a gigantic semi-opaque bubble encasing a seething blue black whirlpool of what looked to her like molten ice, like volcanic lava –were it as cold as space.The sound of cars on wet tarmac, she realised was the sound of this freezing tempest muted by the membrane of the hill.

May lay her hand on the surface of the bubble, it felt soft to the touch but hard below -like velvet stretched across rock. She pushed at it gently and it rippled, turning purple and black in the dimness as it did so. Ripples sluggishly fanning outwards from her hand, growing in depth and height the farther out they spread and slowing as they did so until they came to a halt; leaving the membrane warped and stained with iridescent purple streaks.

She pulled her hand away and felt the surface resist –clinging to her palm. Leaning backwards her hand came away with a soft hiss like