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Stunted, contorted, intertwined and dense, tuckamore is shaped by the harsh wind, the salt spray, and the acid soil

of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Tuckamore, Broom Point, Newfoundland, 2011

The origin of tuckamore is in a combination of two words:tucking ~ tugging or pulling (as in tucking a net), andmore ~ an archaic word for root.(Burzynski, Michael, Gros Morne National Park, Breakwater Books Ltd., St. John's, NF, p. 85)

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But Sergei Askyonov, Crimea’s new prime minister since the Russian takeover, said Vitaly Yarema and Ihor Tenyukh were not wanted in Crimea and would not be permitted to land.

Thousands of Russian soldiers took control of Crimea in the buildup to a weekend referendum last weekend in which the region, with ethnic Russians in the majority, voted overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and join Moscow.

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Saturday, 3 September 2011

Whit Walks 1912-14

These photos are of a Whit walk procession circa 1912-1914.

The rather splendid men at the front wearing top hats are (from left to right)
The Rev Theobald from Union Street Congregational Church ,The Rev Henry Enfield Dowson from Hyde Chapel and The Rev Burgess from Flowery Field United Church. The man just behind them, walking next to the man with the umbrella is George Brownson Esq.

Rev. Henry Enfield Dowson had Dowson Road and Enfield Street named in his honour..
So respected was he that after spending over 58 years as the minister there now lies buried INSIDE Hyde Chapel and not in the Graveyard outside.
More about The Rev. Enfield Dowson at a later date.

A Whitsuntide parade down an, as


yet, unidentified Street.UPDATEWe believe them to be walking past an early Shepherds Call Pub on Market Street!

The children during the parade down another unidentified Hyde Street circa 1912-1914.

UPDATENow believed to be Thomas Street

I'd love to know where they are walking. If anyone knows or has any ideas, let us know !

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What great pictures, I went to Enfield Street in the 1960s... I recall a bronze bust of Rev Enfield Dowson.... I believe he had connections with one of the collages at Oxford University, I have been assured that there is a bronze bust of him there. It may be the same one from the school.

I have been looking at the two photo's, and have had a bit of trouble trying to place them. The bottom one Ion today's photo aren't both streets - the second one is Union Street, but the first one is the entry between the row of houses on Thomas Street and the back of the row of houses on Union Street. you can see the sloping roof of the kitchen (or whatever) that's shown on the map as sticking out of the back of each of the houses on Union Street. Have a look at the second photo (the Working Men's Institute) on the older post. That later became St Thomas's School and can be seen at the corner of Thomas Street and Union Street on the map. It would have been opposite the houses on the far side of Union street shown in today's photo.

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weren't ready for primetime -- its decision to shelf NBA Elite 11 in 2010 led to a four-year-long hiatus. The publisher cancelled NBA Live 17 in order to spend more time working on what became NBA Live 18. Meanwhile, EA competitor 2K Sports is expected to release NBA 2K20 on September 6th (in-game footage featuring number one draft pick Zion Williamson and the game's first female referee was released earlier today).frames reminded me of the frame that surrounds some of Francis Bacon’s painting series, Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1946-mid-1960s), making this viewer want to scream at the museum control evidenced here.

The use of black and white walls didn’t help. In a jazz age (Meadmore was the most ardent admirer of jazz music) of music, colour and movement, and when Meadmore painted one of the interiors of his café in bold primary colours, the use of such bland colours seemed puzzling. Both I and my esteemed friend Joyce Evans, who knew Meadmore in New York and often went to the jazz clubs with him there, felt that the exhibition failed to capture the spirit of the artist, his wonderful personality – or the spirit of


the age. The closest that the exhibition comes to that spirit, that sense of joie de vivre after the privations of the Second World War, are not works by Meadmore at all, but paintings that appeared on the wall of the Legend Expresso and Milk Bar interior c. 1956 by Leonard French titled The Legend of Sinbad the Sailor (1956, below). Here is a cacophony of sound, colour and movement redolent of the era.

Other things rankle. The importance of his contribution to the changing nature of the Melbourne art scene, and the Australian art scene in general, cannot be underestimated. Joyce Evans said to me that, as director of Gallery A, Meadmore’s influence on the direction of contemporary art in Melbourne was incredible, his influence in this spheresurvey to focus on the industrial design practice of one of Australia’s most internationally successful artists. Curated by Dean Keep and Jeromie Maver, the exhibition charts the evolution of Clement Meadmore’s design aesthetic in the 1950s and early 60s, before he shifted his focus to sculpture, and highlights the role Meadmore played alongside Australia’s most innovative and progressive designers of the mid-century period.

The exhibition sheds light on a time when mid-century tastemakers sought to shape post-war Melbourne into a thriving and cosmopolitan city that, through the intersection of art, design and architecture, embodied the ideals and principles of the modernist aesthetic. Meadmore’s first furniture design, a steel rod and corded dining chair created in 1951, became an instant hit, catching the attention of the highly influential modernist architect


Robin Boyd and receiving the Good Design Award from the Society of Interior Designers of Australia (SIDA). The chair would later form part of the iconic thirteen-piece series known as the Meadmore Originals.

For just over a decade, Meadmore produced a small range of innovative furniture and lighting designs, popular with architects, artists and designers of the period. The ground-breaking modern homes designed by architects such as Robin Boyd, Neil Clerehan and Peter McIntyre were not complete without Meadmore furniture or lighting, often placed alongside pieces by Frances Burke, Grant Featherston, Fred Lowen and Douglas Snelling. Meadmore’s furniture and designs were regularly featured in journals such as Australian Home Beautiful and Architecture and Arts, and sold at Marion Hall Best’s showrooms in Sydney and Frances Burke’s New Design storein Melbourne.

In 1955, prior to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, Meadmore was commissioned by Ion Nicolades to design the interiors of the Legend Espresso and Milk Bar and the Teahouse, both in Melbourne. Drawing upon international modernism and a new-found passion for Italian culture, the Legend Espresso and Milk Bar is arguably one of Meadmore’s greatest achievements and became a touchstone for many young creatives in 1950s Melbourne.

In the latter part of the 1950s, Meadmore’s attention increasingly shifted to his sculptural practice and the gallery scene, whilst maintaining his industrial design practice. He would also play a pivotal role in establishing and managing Max Hutchinson’s Gallery A. Known as the Little Bauhaus, the gallery championed non-figurative art and industrial design, with Meadmore responsible for designing the gallery’s line of


contract furniture.

The result of 10 years research, Clement Meadmore: The art of mid-century design presents many pieces for the first time, alongside newly discovered Meadmore designs. The exhibition also presents a rare opportunity to see original furniture and lighting designed by Meadmore for the modernist interiors of the Legend Espresso and Milk Bar and the Teahouse. The iconic designs in this exhibition – including chairs, tables, light fixtures, and graphics – are enlivened by archival images and documents, alongside interviews with the artist’s family and colleagues connected to the Melbourne art, jazz and design scenes of the 1950s. Clement Meadmore: The art of mid-century design showcases Meadmore’s rich design practice and shines a light on the important cultural shifts that shaped mid-century Melbourne.

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On the wall at rearis Erica McGilchrist (1926-2014) Frigidity from the series Moods 1954 and Clement Meadmore’s custom made frame. Pen and ink on paper; steel rod and hardwood (frame) Heide Museum of Modern Art, gift of Erica McGilchrist

Installation views of Gallery 2 the exhibition Clement Meadmore: The art of mid-century design at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

Calyx Lighting

The Calyx lighting range takes design cues from Meadmore’s interest in international modernism, and represents an important shift in his practice. A distinctive feature of the Calyx range is the ingenious sculptural steel base, that enables the lamp to rest in two positions.

Using low-cost materials, readily available from local suppliers, the lamps required no welding and were designed to be easily manufactured and assembled in the workshop. Aluminium shades were hand-painted in


a range of matt enamel colours, then baked in a beehive kiln in the backyard of Meadmore’s Burwood Road shop. All components were cut to size by Meadmore for quick assembly: the shade was easily fixed to the metal bracket using two metal pins and tap washers, then with the addition of a length of electrical flex, the finished product was ready or sale. The Calyx range was featured at the Anderson’s Furniture stand (also designed by Meadmore) at the Homes Exhibition in 1954.

Installation views of Gallery 2 the exhibition Clement Meadmore: The art of mid-century design at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

The work of Clement Meadmore (1929-2005), one of Australia’s most innovative and progressive designers from the mid-century period, will be on display at thein the 1950s and early 1960s, cementing the role he played with the Australian design scene of this time.

Curator Dean Keep said, “The exhibition is an important retrospective showing a snapshot of time when mid-century tastemakers sought to turn Melbourne into a thriving and cosmopolitan city.”

It was in 1951 that Meadmore designed his first piece of furniture; a steel rod and corded dining chair which would form part of the iconic thirteen-piece series known as Meadmore Originals. This chair design became an instant hit, catching the attention of the highly influential modernist architect Robin Boyd.

For the next ten years, Meadmore produced a range of innovative furniture and lighting designs, popular with architects, artists and designers of the period. The ground-breaking modern homes designed by architects such as Robin


Boyd, Neil Clerehan and Peter McIntyre were not complete without Meadmore furniture.

In the mid-1950s, Meadmore was commissioned to design the interiors of the Legend Espresso and Milk Bar in Melbourne, opening for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Before shifting towards sculpture in the late 1950s, Meadmore’s designs were regularly featured in popular lifestyle magazines and sold in designer department stores in Sydney and Melbourne.

Clement Meadmore: The art of mid-century design is on at Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne from 20 November 2018 to 3 March 2019.

This project has been assisted by a State Library Victoria Creative Fellowship.

Press release from the Ian Potter Museum of Art

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Michael Hirst

The three tables presented here pose interesting questions about the business and design arrangements between Clement Meadmore and MichaelHirst, and ambiguous boundaries between authorship and attribution in some of the Hirst manufactured furniture.

The two tiled occasional tables, traditionally attributed to Hirst, were both made by Clement Meadmore and were presented by he designer as gifts to the Dallwitz family in Adelaide. Meadmore considered the tables as prototypes for a new design, sharing with the Dallwitz family his process of making them: first, the glass tiles were laid out to form a pattern, then affixed to adhesive paper and turned upside down. A square structure could then be built around them to hold the wet plaster or cement until it had set hard.

The Dining Table (c. 1959) manufactured by Hirst, was originally owned by the Rippin family, friends of both Hirst and Meadmore. Ailsa Rippin maintained throughout


her life that the table was designed by Meadmore, an assertion supported by the aesthetic and structural similarities it shares with a coffee table Meadmore designed for Violet Dulieu and with one of his earliest welded sculptures (c. 1954).

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Installation views of Gallery 3 the exhibition Clement Meadmore: The art of mid-century design at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

Installation views of Gallery 4 the exhibition Clement Meadmore: The art of mid-century design at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

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Photograph at rear is of the Teahouse interior c. 1958

Artefacts relating to the Legend Expresso and Milk Bar including building application (1955), menu book and cups and saucers

Photograph at rear is of the Legend Expresso and Milk Bar interior c. 1956, 239 Bourke Street, Melbourne Victoria,with Leonard French’s painting The Legend of Sinbad the Sailor
(1956, below) on the wall behind the counter. Courtesy of I. A. Nicolades and L. French. Credit: Leonard Janiszewski and Effy Alexakis. In Their Own Image: Greek-Australians; and chair for Legend Expresso and Milk Bar c. 1956, steel, brass, Collection of Mr John and Ms Dora Dallwitz

Café culture: the Legend and the Tea House

A time of great cultural shifts, the 1950s saw Melbourne evolve into a multi-cultural city enriched by the contributions of post-war migrants. The introduction of European café culture at this time had an enduring influence on the character of the city, as did the preparations for the 1956 Olympic Games, which prompted a major program of rebuilding and revitalisation, providing Clement Meadmore with the opportunity to


create two of the most imaginative and original interiors in Melbourne.

Ion Nicolades was one of many business owners to remodel their premises in anticipation of the number of visitors soon to descend upon the city. Owner of the Anglo-American Café, a Melbourne institution which had operated on the same site since 1904, Nicolades approached Meadmore with the idea of transforming his business into a contemporary café, renamed the Legend Expresso and Milk Bar. Located in the heart of the city on Bourke Street, the space was divided by an internal wall, with the café to the left, and milk bar to the right – and ideal mix that would capitalise on its proximity to nearby offices and cinemas.

Noted on the plans as the ‘superintending architect’, Meadmore designed everyaspect of the Legend, from structural elements through to interior design. From the stools, tables and steel rod chairs, through to the black metal pendant lights. Meadmore crafted an interior that embodied a playful mix of European modernism and contemporary styling. The refurbished Legend quickly became a hub for the young art and design crowd.

Nicolades soon commissioned Meadmore for a second project, the Tea House (also known as the T House). In contrast to the Italophile interiors of the Legend, this project blended British culture and Asian aesthetics with motifs from the botanical world. Meadmore’s subtle inclusion of visual metaphors can be seen in the shape of the chair backs, which reference tea leaves, and in the shape of his lighting: an allusion to the hats worn by


plantation workers who picked the tea [see last installation photograph below]. Meadmore’s passion for geometry informed both the design and spatial arrangement of the interior and furnishings, creating a striking display of ordered forms. The rows of simple steel rod tables and chairs, enveloped by curtained walls that draw the eye deep into the room, demonstrate his ability to minimise visual weight and create a sense of light and space.

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Leonard French (Australian, 1928-2017)The Legend of Sinbad the Sailor
1956
Duco and enamel on board
La Trobe University Art Collection
Donated under the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program by Mr Ion Nicolades 1999

Gallery A

Gallery A was an art gallery in Melbourne’s Flinders Lane, established in 1959 by Max Hutchinson and Clement Meadmore, who took the role of gallery director. The inaugural exhibitionincluded work b the Italian abstract expressionist Franco Meneguzzo (Italian, b. 1924), who Meadmore had met in Milan six years earlier, alongside a group of Australia abstract painters, such as Meadmore’s housemate Peter Upward (Australian, 1932-1983). In a climate of conservatism within the Australian art scene, Gallery A was unapologetically progressive, showcasing non-figurative and abstract art alongside design. An exhibition featuring the work of Ludwig Hirschfield-Mack (1893-1965, German 1893-1939, arrived Australia 1940) in 1961 helped earn Gallery A the title of ‘Little Bauhaus’. In keeping with the Bauhaus principle of bridging the gap between art and industry, Gallery A’s activities extended beyond the exhibition of art and design to the production of a range of furniture, designed by Meadmore and manufactured by Hutchison’s company Adroit Manufacturing. Described as


‘contract furniture’, these designs were intended for commercial projects and were advertised in the gallery’s brochures.

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Installation views of Gallery 5 the exhibition Clement Meadmore: The art of mid-century design at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

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The men were widely lampooned after they spilled the contents of a cooler box containing the organ while rushing to the La Raza hospital in Mexico City two weeks ago. But the operation went ahead as planned and proved successful. "I cannot believe that I'm still here and well," Hernandez said. "It is thanks to the person who donated the heart I can be here."

Dr Jaime Saldivar said Hernandez does not know that the accident made international news, adding that it would be up to her family to tell her.

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Erika Hernandez waves as she leaves hospital

The heart was donated by 20-year-old Rafael Gomez, who was declared brain dead after he was involved in a car crash.

Watching TV cameras captured the moment that one of the medics stumbled as he left the helicopter in his haste to get to the hospital after the heart was flown in from León, in the state of Guanajuato. The bagged heart rolled out on to the concrete, along with ice and a bag of saline.

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Day 8: 25 Days Of Holiday Romances: Kissing Under The Mistletoe by Marina Adair...

Regan Martin stopped believing in Christmas miracles six years ago when she lost everything—her house, her job, and her impeccable reputation in the wine industry—after she fell in love with a man she had no idea was married. Then Regan gets a chance for a fresh start in the Napa Valley. With her dream job, dream home, and her daughter enrolled in a wonderful new school, she starts wondering if holiday wishes really do come true.But she soon tumbles back down to earth when she learns that her new boss is none other than Gabe DeLuca, the scorned wife’s brother. Gabe wants nothing more than home-wrecking Regan Martin out of his life,


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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Review: Submission by Lora Leigh

Submission is the second book in the Bound Hearts series.

Ten years ago Ella Delacourte ran from her marriage. The kink, the
dominating and submitting, those were Jase's thing. What started out
as playful exploration turned much darker. Her heart wasn't in it; not
in the bedroom nor her marriage. She knew what was coming next. Knew
Jase would bring in a third. James Wyman was her husband's friend,
employee, and the only man who could truly make her submit. She was
ashamed of her desires. Afraid of her husband discovering her true
passion. So she ran and fought what was burning inside her.

James
knew how Ella felt about him; he felt the same. He could see the
desire in her eyes. He knew she was it. James thought he'd giveher
time to come to
him. Ten years is a long time to wait and James' patience just ran
out.

Trying to repair the damage she caused in
her relationship with her daughter, Tess, Ella moves back to Virginia to
be closer to her. As a favor to Tess, Ella allows James to stay in her
home while his housing is being situated. After all these years she's
been plagued with fantasies of him. But, she has worked hard at
controlling her desires. She can put up with him for a short time. She
can resist. James on the other hand has grown tired of Ella's self
control. It's about time she let the walls down, let him show her the
pleasure she's needing and has been fighting for so long. It's time for
her to become his.

Submission
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The defaultLike Houston, Atlanta-area residents rank traffic and transportation as their biggest concerns. But in Atlanta the problem is compounded by a long, confusing list of transit services and a lack of state funding.

Now, a new set of recommendations from a state senate committee aim to remedy the situation, urging Georgia's legislature to establish a consistent funding stream for transit and to coordinate services at the state level. Without an actual bill, the recommendations are just suggestions. But the report, released in late December, calls for legislative action in 2018.

The report called for a transportation system "to end traffic congestion as a regular part of life in metropolitan Atlanta and to dramatically increase the mobility of its residents." The report was released by the Senate Study Committee on Regional


Transit Solutions. Lack of coordination and dedicated funding were the two biggest issues identified in the report that help make Atlanta among the most congested cities, according to the committee.

One reporter described the array of options in Atlanta as an "alphabet soup of transit agencies." The services range from "heavy rail, bus systems and university shuttles, to on-demand services, paratransit and vanpool," the report continues. While some of those services are coordinated regionally, others, says the report, "are available only on a local level." Georgia has more counties than any state but Texas, and Atlanta's metro area alone includes 28 counties.

Though the report offers several specific solutions, including the development of bus-only lanes on highways and expanded rail and bus service across the Atlanta metro area, the recommendationsare relatively broad. They also insist "no county or municipality shall be bound to participate in or fund such programs until approved by the voters in a local referendum."

There's reason to think many in the area would support such programs. A survey from the Atlanta Regional Commission found that 73.5 percent of Atlanta residents think transit is very important. And more Atlanta-area residents tend to think expanded transit service, as opposed to improved roads and highways, is the best way to address traffic, by a 43 percent to 32 percent percent. Voters approved tax increases to do both in November.

Similarly in Houston, where traffic tops local concerns as well -- but people are more divided on whether highways or transit are the best solution -- Mayor Sylvester Turner


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On March 5, 2008, Park Ridge moved for summary judgment on its counterclaim, and the trial court set a hearing on the motion for April 3, 2008. Prior to the scheduled hearing, Carter filed a notice of nonsuit, notifying the court and "all parties to this suit that he [was] taking a nonsuit without prejudice of his entire case against all defendants...." The trial court, on April 2, 2008, granted Carter's nonsuit and dismissed the case without prejudice. Later, on April 7, 2008, the court entered a nunc pro tunc order, clarifying that only Carter's claims against Park Ridge were nonsuited, not that Park Ridge's counterclaim against Carter was dismissed.
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Law performs many functions and plays a central role in business and society. Law is a small word that can be defined in many ways. According to the dictionary, the first definition of law is "a rule of conduct or procedure established by custom, agreement, or authority". Law is comprised of statutes and precedents, leading to rules that tell how to act in business and society. Law continues to grow and expand. Law is open to reason and interpretation. The word is small but the implications of the word are vast.

There are several types of law: constitutions, statutes, common law, equity, administrative regulations and decisions, treaties, ordinances, and executive orders. Constitution is the fundamental law of a nation, state, or society that establishes the authority and responsibility ofVanek scores 2 again, ends Rangers&#8217 perfect start

‘Vanek netted the second of Buffalo’s two power-play goals in the second period–the first man-advantage tallies allowed by the Rangers in six games this season–and then put the Sabres ahead in the third. He already has five goals in the Sabres’ first three games, including consecutive two-goal contests.’


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The newish business and shopping district where the upmarket Hilton Melbourne is located can feel a little separated from the action of theNIH

This week a policy allowing controlled access to the HeLa cell genome goes into effect. The policy is the result of three meetings between Francis Collins, the director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), and relatives of Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cervical tumour gave rise to the HeLa cell line, between April and July.

German researchers had released the HeLa genome1, without the family's knowledge, in March, and Nature was about to publish another HeLa sequencing project, led by a team at the University of Washington in Seattle. Both publications were suspended temporarily owing to concerns about the privacy of the Lacks family, who were profiled in the widely read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. The Nature paper is published this week2.

In


The present invention relates to a functional film. In the present invention, the functional film is defined as follows. That is, the functional film means a film having a function, and the function means an action exhibited through a physical and/or chemical phenomenon. The functional film includes films having various functions such as a conductive film, a magnetic film, a ferromagnetic film, a dielectric film, a ferroelectric film, an electrochromic film, an electroluminescence film, an insulating film, a light-absorption film, a light-selective-absorption film, a reflection film, an antireflection film, a catalyst film, and a photocatalyst film.
In particular, the present invention relates to a transparent conductive film. The transparent conductive film can be used as a transparent electrode such as an electrode for an electroluminescence panel, an electrode forDominion invades EVE Online

Posted December 2, 2009 - 00:35
by
Aharon Etengoff

CCP has successfully deployed EVE Online: Dominion. The latest expansion of the popular MMO offers players several new features, including Doomsday devices, a fleet finder utility and a re-designed browser.

"Our goal for EVE is to maximize human interaction and then leverage it to make a more meaningful, interesting game," explained CCP spokesperson Noah Ward.

"Dominion was designed to give players more tools to mold their experience with better means of communication and extra rounds of ammunition. Undoubtedly, the compelling intrigue we've seen in EVE will never end as pilots fight to bend the universe to their will."

According to Ward, sovereignty changes required "fresh" strategies for players intent on controlling space. As such, CCP did away with the entrenched siege battles


the constitutional court of the state.

Seoul Detention Centre said that Lee is not allowed to meet anyone including other prisoners as he is alleged in a single cell. He has been arrested in company with the associates of President Park Geun-Hye’s group.

jay Y. Lee

Jay Lee’s name is in the list of rich peoples. He has approximately $6.2 billion wealth and a $4 million residence located in Seoul. He is also the chief of Samsung consumer electronic group. Now, he is not in his luxurious world, he is in the detention center. There he will not get any preferential care and his daily food will include rice and a side dishes. The food will cost some $1.26 only. He is kept in a 71 square feet corner and a  Opinion of the Court

     NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the
     preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to
     notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Wash
     ington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order
     that corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
                                   _________________


            I
  On February 21, 1978, Freddie Lee Hall, petitioner here,
and his accomplice, Mark Ruffin, kidnaped, beat, raped,
and murdered Karol Hurst, a pregnant, 21-year-old new
lywed. Afterward, Hall and Ruffin drove to a convenience
store they planned to rob. In the parking lot of the store,
they killed Lonnie Coburn, a sheriff’s deputy who at
tempted to apprehend them. Hall received the death
penalty for both murders, although his sentence for the
Coburn murder was later reduced on account of insuffi
cient evidence of premeditation. Hall v. Florida, 403
2                     HALL v. FLORIDA

           individuals in the past dec
ade, while Washington has executed one person, and has
recently suspended its death penalty. None of the four
individuals executed recently in those States appears to
have brought a claim similar to that advanced here.
   Thus, at most nine States mandate a strict IQ score
cutoff at 70. Of these, four States (Delaware, Kansas,
North Carolina, and Washington) appear not to have
considered the issue in their courts. On the other side of
the ledger stand the 18 States that have abolished the
death penalty, either in full or for new offenses, and Ore
gon, which has suspended the death penalty and executed
only two individuals in the past 40 years. See Roper, 543
U. S., at 574 (“[The] Court should have considered those
States that had abandoned the death penalty altogether as
part of


                     Opinion of the Court

     NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the
     preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to
     notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Wash
     ington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order
     that corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
                  and thus is unconstitutional.
                            I
  On February 21, 1978, Freddie Lee Hall, petitioner here,
and his accomplice, Mark Ruffin, kidnaped, beat, raped,
and murdered Karol Hurst, a pregnant, 21-year-old new
lywed. Afterward, Hall and Ruffin drove to a convenience
store they planned to rob. In the parking lot of the store,
they killed Lonnie Coburn, a sheriff’s deputy who at
tempted to apprehend them. Hall received the death
penalty for both murders, although his sentence for the
Coburn murder was later reduced on account of insuffi
cient evidence of premeditation. Hall v. Florida, 403
2


has
recently suspended its death penalty. None of the four
individuals executed recently in those States appears to
have brought a claim similar to that advanced here.
   Thus, at most nine States mandate a strict IQ score
cutoff at 70. Of these, four States (Delaware, Kansas,
North Carolina, and Washington) appear not to have
considered the issue in their courts. On the other side of
the ledger stand the 18 States that have abolished the
death penalty, either in full or for new offenses, and Ore
gon, which has suspended the death penalty and executed
only two individuals in the past 40 years. See Roper, 543
U. S., at 574 (“[The] Court should have considered those
States that had abandoned the death penalty altogether as
part of the consensus against the juvenile death penalty”).
In those States, of course, aSan Siro bids adieu to Argentine, who made 857 appearances for club over 19 years, winning 5 league titles

Inter Milan defender Javier Zanetti was given a rousing farewell by the club’s appreciate supporters after the 40-year-old Argentine ended an era by playing his final match at the San Siro on Saturday. Zanetti came on as a 52nd minute substitute during a 4-1 win over Lazio that booked Inter’s place in the Europa League for next season, a final high for a player who was a rock of consistency in his two decades at the club.

It was his 857th appearance for Inter since signing for the club in 1995, when he became Massimo Moratti’s first purchase as Inter president, and he could make one more in their final Serie


A match of the season at Chievo next week.

The Argentine’s 614 Serie A appearances is bettered only by former AC Milan and Italy defender Paolo Maldini but is by far and away the most of any foreign player to play in Italy.

In that time Zanetti has won five league titles, scored in a 3-0 1998 UEFA Cup final win against Lazio and played a key role in the treble-winning 2010 side that claimed the club’s first European Cup in nearly half a century.

Zanetti will leave the game a symbol of better times for Italian football, when one-club legends like Maldini, Alessandro Del Piero and Francesco Totti helped make Serie A the toughest, and arguably the best league in the world.

Next season only Totti will be left, and hisTreblinka. Is he to be blacklisted for also leaving us a moving recollection of Stalinist famine in Ukraine, and comparing the two?

It is not just the elevated thought of these and other Jewish survivors that arises from historical analogies involving the Holocaust. For better and for worse, American politics also depends on them. American movements for social justice and civil rights included Jews who thought they could apply the lessons of the Holocaust to America, and black Americans who saw in the Holocaust an example of the politics of empire. The Cold War was fought on the basis of an analogy: The United States should not appease Stalin as the Europeans appeased Hitler. The second Iraq war was fought on the same analogy.

Analogies, instructive or deceptive, are all


the attempt to remove Jews from the planet by murdering them all. In its unfolding, however, an important early step was the stigmatization and deportation of Jews who were not German citizens.

On the night of Oct. 28, 1938, the SS rounded up about 17,000 Jews who had Polish citizenship and forced them across the Polish border. Often these were people whose whole lives were in Germany, including children who saw themselves as Germans. Consider the Grynszpan family. Their teenage son, Herschel, was in Paris when his parents and sister were deported. On Nov. 3, he received a postcard from his sister: “Everything is finished for us.” Soon after, Herschel shot and killed a German diplomat. In Berlin, Goebbels used this as a pretext to organize Kristallnacht. It doesseem worth asking just how far away we are from a scenario where stigmatization, family separation, and deportation lead to some similar escalation.

The Holocaust could only proceed when state protection was stripped from Jews. The experience of murdered Jews has more to do with statelessness than it does with concentration camps. Roughly half of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust were shot over pits close to their homes. These people had almost never seen a concentration camp. But some of their murderers had, as guards. A concentration camp is a lawless zone, and the SS was an institution that existed beyond the law, in a murkier world defined by Nazi racial ideology. Mass murder was possible when a lawless institution operated in the vast, lawless colony the Germans


created in Eastern Europe. The extreme case suggests a general lesson: The rule of law should prevail everywhere, and states of exception should be kept to an absolute minimum.

In late 1941, Germans developed a new method of industrial murder: forced exposure to automobile exhaust. Rather than being shot to death like Soviet Jews, Polish Jews would be asphyxiated. At Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka, the stateless Jews of Poland, enclosed in ghettos for a deportation that never happened, were instead dispatched to killing centers. In the summer of 1942, the SS leadership concluded that the food consumed by the Jews working in the Warsaw ghetto was more valuable than the forced labor they were performing. Famished Jews were lured to the transport site by the promise of bread andin territorially defined lawless zones. Historians of empire, who have a broader view, might disagree with me, and they might be right—just as Ocasio-Cortez might be right.

Our detention facilities also recall ghettos in some ways: They physically separate the people with the least state protection from others, they concern whole families (often with members separated), and they depend on a society willing to denounce neighbors. German concentration camps were used at their inception to punish people for their political views and then for their social behaviors, and were only later (after that first Jewish deportation of 1938 and Kristallnacht) used to punish a group defined by origin. The same pattern roughly holds for Soviet concentration camps.

Our detention facilities were ethnic from the outset, and are seen by the


character, we take for granted that we did the right thing in the 1930s. This is not the case. We initiated diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in late 1932, just as Stalin plunged Ukraine into famine. Hitler praised our immigration policies and our Jim Crow laws. Much American reporting on Hitler was quite admiring. Some advocates of “America First,” such as Charles Lindbergh, wanted an alliance with the Nazis to protect white people from everyone else. Jews in the United States hesitated to speak of the oppression of Jews in Europe, fearing that an anti-Semitic backlash would make it less likely that the United States would enter the war.

One obligation, when we say “never again,” is to ask what Americans did the last time around.

The United Stateswisdom and experience of a senior review group, which was comprised of individuals who have direct knowledge about satellite launch costs and are very familiar with the current technologies the country can use to adapt for the purposes of lightweight interceptors. One of the study’s reviewers was the other author of this piece (Lt. Gen. Obering). He and several other group members strongly disagree with the high figures often cited. The disagreements are rooted in several assumptions including those of satellite launch costs, the type of architecture that will be required based on the kinds of threats the United States will prioritize first, and the way life-cycle costs are calculated.

Among the reviewers is Michael Griffin, now defense undersecretary for research and engineering. In August, Undersecretary Griffin told reporters


Amid Grim News from Katrina, a Jewish Couple’s Infant Survives

September 6, 2005

NEW YORK (Sep. 5)

As Hurricane Katrina threatened to destroy their homes and towns, thousands fled the Gulf Coast in search of higher ground, leaving behind a host of valuables — from cars to clothes to albums of sentimental family photographs. But for Tad and Lani Breaux, a Jewish couple from New Orleans, evacuation meant leaving behind something far more precious: their four-day-old child.

Zachary Breaux was in the neonatal intensive-care unit at a New Orleans hospital when his parents were forced to run for their lives, thinking that as in past hurricanes, their evacuation would last only several days. They ended up in Houston, safe but uncertain about their young son’s fate.

Desperate for information, they turned to AdamBronstone, the director of the New Orleans Jewish Community Relations Council and the head of communications for the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans.

Bronstone, in turn, contacted several potential sources of information, including U.S. Army officials, in a frantic attempt to track down baby Zachary.

They found him in the late afternoon on Sept. 1, Bronstone said.

Zachary, it turned out, had himself been shuttled out of New Orleans as the storm powered its way toward the Gulf. He had been put on a plane along with 60 adults and three children and shuttled to Cook Hospital in Fort Worth.

Later that evening, Tad and Lani Breaux were reunited with their missing child. They were flown to Fort Worth aboard a plane provided by Angel Flight — a nonprofit organization of


pilots and other volunteers that arranges free transportation on private aircraft in response to medical and other compelling human needs.

Amid scenes of growing chaos and despair, the reunion was a welcome bit of good news. Mostly though, developments in the region were disheartening.

The official death toll is less than a hundred but is predicted to climb into the thousands in Katrina’s devastating aftermath. Last week, reports of looting, violence and general lawlessness saturated newspapers and television news programs. Hunger and fear of disease in affected areas engendered anger and disbelief as the federal government’s handling of the crisis garnered sharp criticism.

Meanwhile, Houston was quickly becoming a haven for victims of the destructive storm who have been left, for the moment at least, without homes.

Some 15,000 Louisiana evacuees wereto lend a helping hand to those less fortunate. Today it is our moral imperative to respond to the needs of our fellow Americans in the South.”

The disaster relief fund of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism has begun collecting donations. The group is also exploring alternatives preparations in case other items, such as clothing, are needed.

The USCJ also distributed a special prayer, written by two of its members. It reads, in part:

“In the path of Katrina’s destruction, let the good in humanity rise to the top of the flood. Give us strength to console those who have lost family, friends and neighbors. Give us the courage to provide hope to those who despair. Provide us with the guidance to heal those who ail, both in body and


beleaguered region.

The Union for Reform Judaism’s Henry S. Jacobs Camp in Utica, Miss., was opened to some 150 New Orleans residents fleeing the storm, including some disabled adults.

The union used its disaster-relief fund to aid those affected by Katrina. It has also opened a hurricane relief line and created extensive Web-based communications resources including an area on its Web site where members of four Reform temples in southeast Louisiana — Touro Synagogue, North Shore Congregation, Temple Sinai, and Congregation Gates of Prayer — can share their whereabouts with colleagues and friends.

A group of Chabad-Lubavitch centers in Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida and Georgia is arranging for housing and kosher food for Jews who need them and is marshaling volunteers to aid victims.

The United Jewish Communities, the umbrella organization of1959. This court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1346.
This case came on for a pretrial conference on July 26, 1968. At that time, the court approved the parties' proposed Pretrial Conference Order, and further ordered the case submitted upon briefs alone at the request of the parties since no factual issues remained for trial. The parties filed briefs in accordance with the November 1, 1968, deadline.
The main facts are not in dispute and are set out at pages 2-3 of the Pretrial Conference Order filed on September 16, 1968, as follows:
"Prior to the year 1959, plaintiff, Clyde Hufbauer, had conducted an architectural business as sole proprietor. It was decided to incorporate that business and on April 21, 1959, a corporate charter was granted by the State of


California."
"The plaintiff, Clyde Hufbauer, Architect, Inc., was incorporated on April 21, 1959, as a successor to the architectural business previously conducted by plaintiff, Clyde Hufbauer, as sole proprietor. On or about September 14, 1959, the plaintiff corporation filed a federal income tax return for the period January 1, 1959 to June 30, 1959, and paid $38,255.32 in federal income taxes shown to be due thereon to the District Director of Internal Revenue at Los Angeles, California, prior to the end of the year 1959. It included in that return all of the income ($125,102.73) and deductions ($60,068.88) of the proprietorship from January 1, 1959, to April 20, 1959, and its own income and deductions for the period April 21, 1959 to June 30, 1959."
"The plaintiff, Clyde Hufbauer, andhis former wife, Arabella Hufbauer, filed a joint federal income tax return for the calendar year 1959 with the District Director of Internal Revenue at Los Angeles on or about April 15, 1960, and did not report any income or deductions from the architectural business carried on as a sole proprietorship during the period January 1, 1959 to April 20, 1959. Upon audit the Commissioner of Internal Revenue determined that the said omission was incorrect and, accordingly, assessed an income tax deficiency against plaintiff, Clyde Hufbauer, in the amount of $41,921.56 and interest in the amount of $15,755.04. The assessment was timely made on July 22, 1966 since the six-year statute of limitations on assessment applied where an amount omitted from gross income was more than 25% of


those in Bull, Stone and Boyle, supra. In Bull the two-fold taxation was the product of the commissioner's error, but in the present case there was a misstatement by the taxpayer in the return filed by the corporation to the effect that the date of incorporation was January, 1959, rather than the correct date, April 21, 1959. In Stone, the failure of the Government to tax the beneficiary was not due to error but rather to a judicial decision marking a change in tax law application. In Boyle, the court found the taxpayer's conduct exemplary, and distinguished Rothensies in part on the possible existence of laches in that case due to the twenty-year interval between payment of taxes and claim for recoupment.
The Court in Stone pointed out thatpopulation helps reduce wages for American graduates because it is twice the yearly college output of American graduates with degrees in healthcare, business, science, engineering, software, architecture, and design careers. In addition, employers have won green cards for roughly 50,000 graduates each year for more than 20 years.

This huge population of salary-cutting foreign graduates is rarely noted by establishment media. But it pushes American graduates towards the Democratic Party, says a 2018 study by pro-migration authors:

Our strongest and most significant finding is that an increase in high-skilled immigrants as a share of the local population is associated with a strong and significant decrease in the vote share for the Republican Party. To the contrary, an increase in the low-skilled immigrant share of the population is associated with a


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She called out Fox News contributor Tamara Holder for having ‘big boobs.’

She was accused of physically intimidating and verbally threatening long-time White House correspondent April Ryan.

And after gay CNN anchor Don Lemon cut her mic during a segment, Omarosa told TMZ he should ‘stop being such a queen.’

By common consent, she achieved absolutely nothing to benefit the Trump presidency. In fact, quite the reverse.

Yet there she was, ensconced in her own office in the West Wing, watching, listening, plotting and almost certainly recording.

Now on Celebrity Big Brother, Omarosa’s been singing like a bitchy canary


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He was deported twice – in 2007 and 2009.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said on Monday that Orrego-Savala had been convicted of driving drunk in California in 2005.

He also has other “misdemeanor criminal convictions and arrests in California and Indiana,” ICE said in a statement issued Monday.

Jackson, 26, was signed by the Colts in 2016 and played in all 16 games that season.

He sat out the 2017 season on injured reserve.


for the (2026) Winter Games or beyond that.”

Denver and Reno would be behind the curve compared with Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Olympics in 2002, and what remains there and in Park City pretty much adheres to Agenda 2020, the blueprint that Bach set for future Olympics, which calls for less spending on new venues and infrastructure.

The area has maintained an Olympic speedskating oval and a Nordic skiing course, and the Utah Olympic Park remains an active training ground for action sports

Leaders of the movement to bring the games back to Utah have largely stayed quiet, not wanting to take the limelight from Los Angeles, which helped the U.S. put a stop to a long string of embarrassing losses on the Olympic bid front. Butproviding the VoIP service (“the VoIP service application”), and router XYZ also executes version 2.0 of the VoIP service application. The administrator may use an EMS client, hosted on the administrator's workstation, to communicate with the EMS server. After configuring how the EMS server provisions the VoIP service, the administrator may deploy the VoIP service, as configured, on router XYZ by sending instructions from the EMS client to the EMS server to cause the EMS server to provision the VoIP service, as configured, on router XYZ.
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following Thanksgiving because she wanted to be with her family and because she
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she understood and agreed to work on the days surrounding the holiday, the
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A reporter for a local newspaper, The Missoulian, noticed the trademark symbol next to “The Last Best Place” in an advertisement for Mr. Lipson’s resort and wrote an article about it. He wrote that Mr. Lipson, filing under one of his businesses, The Last Best Beef, had tried to gain exclusive rights to the slogan  not only to market his resort, but for other businesses, including jewelry, kitchenware and a line of clothing that includes hats, underwear and lingerie.

Image William Kittredge came up with the phrase and used it as the title of a 1988 anthology of Montana writers that he helped edit. Credit... Peter DaSilva for The New York Times

Among those who denounced Mr. Lipson for claiming the phrase was Gov. Brian Schweitzer and Senator Maxexplain the sloppy work of the unit, Yvette Sanchez-Owens, commanding officer of the Scientific Investigation Division, speculated that “people were reviewing the work of friends and just rubber stamping it without really reviewing it.”

In one of the cases highlighted in the report, a man was extradited from Alabama to face burglary charges after an analyst matched his prints to those found at the scene. The mistake was missed by two reviewers and was caught only when a third reviewer was preparing to testify at the trial.

In the other example, Maria Delosange Maldonado, a pregnant hospital technician, was charged in February 2006 with breaking into a San Fernando Valley cellphone store. When questions were raised about the accuracy of the print analysis, the LAPD said the prints could not


to come and get water to bring back to their homes.
One day while sitting by the well a man came to us and started to speak to us in English. We discovered he came from New York and when he told us the exit he took on the Long Island Express to reach his home we told him we had a home a few exits further East..

He was so eager to talk to Americans and particularly someone who lived near where his home used to be.We talked with him for about 10 minutes. We understood that he would not be going back to the States
He seemed to miss the USA and we fantasized that he may have been deported by the USA government because of his ties tothough it is in the nature of addiction to hide itself, and for others to look away or make pointless moral judgemnts.

However, it is seems like there a quite a different kind of illusory thinking going on in LouiseH's post, including concluding she was in the midst of an American inner-city gang threat but being unable to see a reason why a train station official or other passengers might have an interest in knowing about that or would be in a position to do something about it if informed.

Whatever the reality of what happened, it is LouiseH who sent this one off the rails.

Woman from the United States of America is waiting for a train in a town in Italy. Is approached by a male of African appearance,


kind of surprised at how intense some of the descriptions were.

From my current re-read, Holiday in Death (I so love watching Eve Christmas shop):

She watched a fistfight break out between two women. Street LCs, Eve mused. Licensed companions had to guard their turf here as fiercely as the vendors of food and drink. She considered getting out and breaking it up, but the little blonde decked the big redhead, then darted off into the crowd like a rabbit.

Good thinking, Eve thought approvingly, as the redhead was already on her feet, shaking her head clear and shouting inventive obscenities.

This, Eve thought with affection, was her New York.

Or this scene, where Eve becomes impatient because a clerk at the jewelry counter is not paying attention to her presence:

Because she washelplessness.

In the second book, Glory in Death, Roarke is so angry that Eve refuses to fully commit to him, after a little more than a month together, that he walks out on her, and when Eve eventually gives in and agrees to move in with him, Roarke gets her to agree to marriage in the aftermath of a knife fight with the book’s villain. He has no compunction about tranquilizing her when he believes that she needs rest, and even to the hospital against her will. In Judgment in Death, Roarke physically brawls with Webster, the cop who is still hung up on Eve, even though Eve has absolutely no interest in the man. In fact, Roarke has a pattern of overt jealousy where Eve’s male colleagues are


love you, Eve. Ridiculously.”

Another author I revisited recently is Shannon McKenna, whose 2001 novella, Something Wild, involves an architect who has been following a young woman from state to state, her in an old truck, him on a motorcycle. He is pursuing her because

The sight of her walking out of the ladies’ room had hit him like a fist. . . .

She hadn’t seen him. In fact, she’d noticed barely anything. She’d walked like a woman in a dream. Something about the way she swept those heavy waves of honey-blonde hair out of her pale face was eloquent in its unspoken weariness. She looked tired, rumpled, her big gray eyes haunted and vulnerable. Like she needed someone to cheer her up, make her laugh. Chase those shadows awayI read the 1970s blockbusters by Woodiwiss and Rogers, I also recall that in the 1980s, just about every Johanna Lindsey novel (she was one of my favorite authors) included a scene or two in which the hero raped the heroine. And Lindsey’s Paradise Wild, published by Avon in 1981, had the hero hitting the heroine as well.

IIRC, he’d raped her and gotten her to marry him (she was pregnant but he didn’t know that), and then seduced her on their wedding nights and dumped her in revenge for something her father did. To get back at him, she tracks him down to Hawaii after she gives birth, and gets other men to brag about having slept with her– something that didn’t actually happen. She also passes off


A Polish-Ukrainian archaeological team has uncovered the remains of Polish WWII soldiers among about 950 victims of Soviet repressions in Volodymyr-Volynsky, western Ukraine.

Photo: sxc.hu

The remains were found on the premises of a former NKVD (Soviet secret police) prison that functioned intermittently between 1939 and 1956.

Up until the outbreak of the Second World War in August 1939, Volodymyr-Volynsky (Wlodzimierz Wołyński) had been within Poland's borders.

Alexei Zlatogorski, head of the Ukrainian branch of the archaeological team, believes the victims were killed between 1940 and 1941, before Hitler turned on his Moscow ally and invaded Soviet-occupied territory.

“So far, we have found the remains of about 950 people,” he told the Rzeczpospolita daily.

“These include Polish soldiers, but also civilians,” he clarified.

Polish archaeologist Dr Dominika Sieminska described the remains as being in “verybad condition,” noting that they had been covered with lime.

The Rzeczpospolita paper referred the find as a “new Katyn”, in an allusion to the massacre of over 20,000 Polish officers by the NKVD in 1940 at various points across the Soviet Union, including the Katyn Forest near Smolensk.

The exhumations are scheduled to continue for several more weeks. (nh)


Evening With Yoshiki Premium Dinner Show 2017 begins in Nagoya

On Saturday, August 26, 2017, the Yoshiki Premium Dinner Show — “EVENING WITH YOSHIKI 2017 IN NAGOYA & OSAKA & TOKYO JAPAN” — kicked off with a first-time-ever performance in Nagoya.

This marks the fourth year of this concert series, offering fans a precious once-in-a-year opportunity to see a YOSHIKI performance in an up-close and intimate setting. Accordingly, tickets for all 7 performances were immediately sold out after becoming available. Because the demand for tickets has been overwhelming every year, additional seating was quickly added to the Nagoya and Osaka performances even after the original establishment of the show layout. The opportunity to see YOSHIKI — who has conquered musical venues all across the world for crowds of over 10,000Spaceship IV

Residential

Earth hugging, black and brooding, this ‘spaceship’ for a film industry client and family (with many sci-fi film credits) has a hint of the dystopian about it.

The design solution embraces both the slope of the site and the request for a flat north facing yard. The level of the rear yard continues through the generous living volume and appropriates the roof of the volume below as an informal outdoor deck. The eyrie provides views of Auckland’s volcanic cones and is an extension of the living area that maximises the usable outdoor space of the site.

Steel screens and profiled-metal cladding and roofs accentuate the heavy metal theme, while cedar to the north and the street elevation softens the house as a neighbourly presence in the street.

Entry to the


house is through a steel and polycarbonate walkway on the side of the building. Once inside, a glazed courtyard planted with dense natives is revealed. This light filled void is at the heart of the home and is the pivot for circulation into the bedrooms, bathroom and the common second lounge that expands from the hall to create a connection through the courtyard to the street.

The straight-run stair ascends to the middle of a large living area though a black strand board void. The movement from light to dark, and from contraction to expansion is designed to create a point of inflection in the interior. The kitchen, to the west, opens out to the roof deck. The sloping roof forms follow the contours of the site, culminating inGold Rushes: A Playful History

Lego Gold Rush

Recently, a great friend referred Toy Tech to an animation entitled Lego Gold Rush.

This one minute, twenty-eight second video poignantly portrays the golden hopes and granite disappointments associated with miner's fever. Life-giving and death-dealing circumstances are set within the Earth's heart, at once a king's chamber and robber's tomb.

The video also features our favorite Lego theme - Western. Watch it here:

When history promises climbs to wealth's highest mounts, but, too often, alas, delivers breathtaking plummets to valleys of ruin, a certain fascination lingers well after the events themselves. (It is estimated that during the last 400 years, less than 5% of gold prospectors have netted wealth from their search activities in excess of personal expenses.)

Gold Rushes, in archetypal fashion, provide drama without


life-changing impacts beyond the individuals involved.

However, that was not always so. When the word "rush" was whispered prior to the 20th century, the very soughing of the term seemed to sweep from depths unknown images of the sweetest kind. The indefatigable spirits of adventurers heard once again the siren sound.

Yukon Gold Rush

The following two film clips portray the playfulness of the human spirit. The ability of man to see comic relief in the face of the harshest realities is captured by Charles Chaplin in his own inimical way. Chaplin's subject: The Yukon Gold Rush of 1897.

See:

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At least one million persons planned to abandon their desperately poor lives to trek to the Yukon. In actuality, it is estimated that the number of persons finally arriving in theNorthern Territories (100,000) was uncannily similar to the total of hopeful souls who had trekked to California just 37 years earlier (1848-53). The difference was that, in California, Europeans comprised the bulk of the adventurers, while in the Canadian rush, the majority of prospectors were Americans attempting to escape the economic misery that was all too common in the US during the 1880's.

The Yukon Trail Summit Today

Some would-be miners were well provisioned, carrying with them as much as a ton and a half of equipment and supplies. Others arrived with nothing more than the summer clothes upon their backs.

Often young men, impoverished by the American economic downturn, were staked by their families who had sold everything to invest their hopes upon the shoulders of their sons.

Thousands died of


the cold, found frozen with eyes open in the snow and ice. Others fell from high ridges that gave way or from which they simply tumbled, a consequence of the treacherous footing. (In many cases, what actually happened to loved ones was never determined. They simply disappeared.)

There were very few women who made the journey north. However, those who did were, for a variety of reasons, much more likely to "strike it rich" than their male counterparts.

See excellent Yukon Rush period photos with voice-over:

See 1958 Yukon Rush historical film:

It is estimated that five million ounces of gold were taken from the North during the Yukon Gold Rush.

As impressive as that number is, even today, large quantities of gold are still being harvested from the land.

Near Fairbanks, Alaska, forexample, the Fort Knox mining operation removes three hundred thousand dollars worth of gold per day. That's approximately three standard gold bars, depending upon the world price of gold.

See explosion at Fort Knox gold mine, Alaska:

See: Snoopy taking on the spirit of the Klondike:

California Gold Rush

The rush to gold that had the most lasting impact on the political face of the North American continent was the California Gold Rush of 1848-53.

It was as a consequence of this rush to gold (combined with 12,000 of General Scott's American troops occupying Veracruz, Mexico, and a 15 million dollar purchase offer from the US to Mexico that Mexico was not allowed to refuse) that California became a US territory in 1848, and subsequently a State in 1850. (See colorful sketches)

Approximately 100,000


persons responded to the news that gold had been discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. Most of those who did respond were from places other than the United States, primarily Latin America, China, Europe and Australia.

Life was hard. However, since the weather in California is substantially better on average than that of the Arctic, far fewer corpses turned up, although the numbers lost to disease and violence were still depressingly large.

Miner and author Franklin Langsworthy summed it up when he wrote, "....the California Rush was a pilgrimage in a strange land, a banishment from good society, a living death, and a punishment of the worst kind, and the time spent here ought to be considered as a blank period in existence, and accordingly struck from the record ofBrazil Gold Rush of 1695

North Carolina Gold Rush of 1799

Georgia Gold Rush of 1829

British Columbia Gold Rush of 1850

Victorian Gold Rush of 1850 (Australia)

Northern Nevada Gold Rush from 1850 onward

Rock Creek Gold Rush (British Columbia) of 1858

Pikes Peak Gold Rush (Colorado) of 1859

Idaho Gold Rush of 1860

Cariboo Gold Rush (British Columbia) of 1862

Stikine Gold Rush (British Columbia) of 1863

Big Ben Gold Rush (British Columbia) of 1865

Omineca Gold Rush (British Columbia) of 1869

Wild Horse Creek Gold Rush (British Columbia) of the 1860's

Black Hills Gold Rush (South Dakota) of 1874

Easter Oregon Gold Rush of 1865

Central Otago Gold Rush (New Zealand) of 1861

Cassiar Gold Rush (British Columbia) of 1871

And, 27 (twenty-seven) more not listed, culminating with the Apui Gold Rush, Brazil of 2006.

Please return to this space for part two of


PedalPure: turning livelihoods into water solutions in Bangladesh

In an innovative new scheme in Dhaka, Bangladesh is turning pedal power into clean water for rickshaw pullers and their families. Watch the film to find out how.

In Bangladesh about 2.25 million people live in slum areas in extreme poverty, half of them in the capital, Dhaka. Most of the city’s 600,000 rickshaw pullers live in its slums. Many of them earn less than £4 per day, and support six to eight family members.

Every year thousands of children living in the slum communities die of diarrhoeal diseases caused by a lack of safe water. The pullers risk their health and livelihoods drinking unsafe water from street vendors during work.

PedalPure, a joint endeavour by GREY and WaterAid Bangladesh, is a pedal-powered waterAs part of Lee Fitzgerald’s re-design of the IEE building we designed the lighting for a number of areas, including the Entrance Foyer, Front of House facilities and Library. The lighting schemes provided not only appropriate flexibility for the multi-use facilities, but also complemented the period architecture and finishes.

The lighting for the main Lecture Theatre was designed earlier as part of RHWL’s refurbishment project. The lighting had to meet all the complex operational requirements of a state-of-the art lecture hall, whilst still allowing the warmth of the original mahogany panelling and impressive oil paintings to be revealed. Fibre optics were integrated into the decorative ceiling, designed by artist Tony Raymond, which shows the magnetic declination from 1871 (when the Institution was founded) to 2001, with each light point


National – Across the India:

1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated three major railway projects in Bihar at an estimated cost of 7000 crore rupees.

Three projects are Rail-cum-road bridge at Patna over the River Ganga, Rail-cum-road bridge at Munger, Additional bridge at Mokama over the River Ganga: It is double line Railway Bridge.

These three bridges will provide connectivity to north and south Bihar and further help in development of North Bihar.

2. The Allahabad High Court celebrated its 150th foundation day on 14th March 2016. President Pranab Mukherjee was the Chief Guest of the celebrations.

Allahabad High Court was established in 1866 after seat was shifted from Agra to Allahabad in 1869. It had replaced the old Sadr Diwani Adalat.

Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur and Union Law Minister DVSadananda Gowda were some of the dignitaries who attended the function.

On this occasion, CJI Justice Thakur dedicated digitization centre of Allahabad High court, Reserve bank of India (RBI) also released a 10 rupees coin, Postal department released a postage stamp and a Souvenir of the High court.

3. Recently, power generation unit 1 at Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Gujarat was shut down for indefinitely period after leakage of heavy water.

The Kakrapar nuclear plant is located near Vyara in south Gujarat. It consists of two units of pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWR) of 220 MW each. NPCIL is operator the plant.

The reactor was shut down as per design provisions after a small leak in the Primary Heat Transport (PHT) System of the plant was detected.

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being used in 26 countries around the world.

7. India ranked 118th out of 157 countries on the United Nations’ World Happiness Index (WHI) 2016.

It was declared by the fourth World Happiness Report 2016 published by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a global initiative for the UN.

World Happiness Report aims at influencing government policy and is prepared on the basis of study undertaken by Gallup World Poll.

13. The Supreme Court has allowed publication of photographs of Governors, Chief Ministers and the Ministers of the department concerned in government advertisements.

Ruling in this regard was given by a SC bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi on pleas by Union Government and states which had sought review of the Supreme Court judgement.

This ruling of Supreme Court has modified its earlier 2015order which only had permitted photographs of President, Prime Minister and Chief Justice of India (CJI) in the government advertisements.

14. Goa government has classified Feni, country liquor as the heritage spirit of the state.

Feni is a form of spirit produced exclusively in the coastal state of Goa. It is a distilled brew made from coconut or cashew fruits.

For this, state government has opined not categorize it as country liquor as it is presently defined under the Goa Excise Duty Act, 1964.

State government also has proposed to bring an amendment to the Act to change the status.

International – Across the Globe:

1. China’s Supreme Court has decided to set up its own International Maritime Judicial Centre (IMJC) to handle territorial disputes and protect its sea rights.

It was announced by China’s


Supreme Court Chief Justice Zhou Qiang at the annual meeting of the national legislature National People’s Congress (NPC).

This move will help China to bolster its claims in the disputed South and East China seas and also help it become a maritime power.

2. Htin Kyaw has been elected Myanmar’s Parliament as the first civilian (non-military) President of the country after 53 years of military rule.

He was candidate of National League for Democracy (NLD) party and was elected after securing 360 of the total 652 casted votes.

Myint Swe and Henry Van Thio will serve as first vice-president and second vice-president of the country, respectively.

As per Myanmar’s constitution adopted in 2008, President is elected under a complex system in which the two chambers of parliament nominate two presidential candidates and militaryMPs nominated a third candidate, assuring the army continued influence.

Sports:

1. Services has won the 70th edition of Santosh Trophy Football Championships title 2016 by defeating hosts Maharashtra.

In the final match played at SEC Railway Stadium, Nagpur (Maharashtra), the Services defeated host team Maharashtra by 2-1 goal score.

Santosh Trophy is an annual Indian football tournament played in India.

With this win, Services has retained that title and has won it for fifth time in year 1961, 2012, 2013 and 2015.

2. Lin Dan from China has won the prestigious 2016 All England Badminton title in the men’s singles category.

In the final match played at Birmingham, England he defeated Chinese teammate Tian Houwei by 21-9, 21-10 score.

It was his overall sixth All England badminton title and earlier he had won it in


2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012.

All England Open Badminton Championships is one of the oldest as well as the prestigious badminton tournaments of the world.

Appointments & Resignations:

1. H Deep Saini, Indian scholar and plant physiologist has been appointed as the fifth Vice Chancellor of the prestigious University of Canberra.

He will succeed Vice Chancellor Stephen Parker in September 2016 who will step down from the post in July 2016 after over nine years in the service.

At present he is serving as the Vice-President of the University of Toronto and Principal of the University of Toronto Mississauga campus in Canada.

He has received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

2. The United Nations (UN) has suspended Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova as Goodwill Ambassador of the organisation after she was tested positiveon doping allegations. She was suspended by New York based UN Development Programme (UNDP) until the outcome of the investigation into her case is known.

In March 2016 Maria Sharapova had announced that she tested positive for a drug called meldonium, at the Australian Open earlier in January 2016.

Meldonium also known as Mildronate is a medical drug given to patients suffering from heart and circulatory conditions for enhancing their physical capacity and mental function.

3. President Barack Obama has nominated veteran appeals court judge Merrick Garland (63) to be the next US Supreme Court Justice.

His nomination comes to vacancy in the US Supreme Court which was created after the death of SC Justice Antonin Scalia.

He is highly regarded by the legal fraternity and lawmakers.

4. Bangladesh Government has appointed Former Secretary


of Finance Division Fazle Kabir as the new Governor of Bangladesh Bank, country’s central bank.

He will succeeds Atiur Rahman who had resigned after taking moral responsibility over the cyber theft from the central bank’s official account with New York Federal Reserve Bank.

He was appointed finance secretary in 2012.

He had also served on the board of state-owned Janata Bank.

5. Ashley Judd, acclaimed humanitarian, actor, writer and political activist from US has been appointed as Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

UNFPA is the nodal UN agency to address reproductive health and population issues, and raises awareness of these issues in all countries.

Ashley Judd will support the UNFPA’s efforts to empower women to choose when and how often to become pregnant and to stop women dying giving life.

Shewill also play important role at generating awareness about the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

6.Lori Robinson, United States (US) Air Force General has been selected as the next head of the US military’s Northern Command.

She becomes the first woman to head a US combatant command as the position is one of the most senior in the US military.

At present, she leads US air forces in the Pacific and Executive Director of Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. She had enrolled in the US Air Force in 1982.

2. Lok Sabha has passed Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2016 to include certain communities in the list of Scheduled Castes (SC) from 4 states.

It will amend Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 to include certain


communities from Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Kerala and West Bengal in the list.

It also has provisions for exclusion of certain communities from Odisha and removal of area restriction in respect of certain communities.

3. The Union Government has unveiled a Model Building Bye-Laws, 2016 for granting permission for construction of buildings.

It was released by the Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu in New Delhi.

It seeks to provide an online single window framework for approval process.

Model Building Bye-Laws, 2016 intends to improve ease of doing business regarding issuance of construction permits.

4. The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has scrapped repeat tests on animals for drugs which already have been approved by other countries.

In this regard, the ministry has as amended Schedule Y of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945.

The newobserved on 15 March for celebration and solidarity within the international consumer movement.

WCRD is observed on 15 March to commemorate the historic address given by the then US President John F Kennedy to the US congress in 1962.

It provides an opportunity to promote the basic rights of all consumers, demand those rights that must be respected and protected and for those protesting against the market abuses and social injustices.

2016 Theme of WCRD is “Antibiotics off the menu”. The theme is a campaign to stop the sale of meat raised with the use of antibiotics important to human medicine.

Death:

1. Lloyd Stowell Shapley, the renowned American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning economist, passed away on 12 March 2016. He was 92.

He had contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially


game theory.

He was considered one of the fathers of game theory.

He had contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory. He was considered one of the fathers of game theory.

He was awarded 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Alvin E. Roth for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design.Maharishi Vedic Science

In January 2008, Maharishi established the Brahmananda Saraswati Trust to support and endow the large group of Maharishi Vedic Pandits at a campus in the Brahmasthan (geographic centre) of India. The goal is to support 9,000 Pandits. As a stepping stone, the immediate target is to expand the group from its current 2,000 to 3,500 — a number suffcient to create a beneficial effect for all of India and a firm foundation for achieving the target of 9,000.


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday lashed out at Europe's silence over the execution of a veteran Jamaat-e-Islami leader in Bangladesh, accusing the West of "double standards.""If you are against political executions, why did you remain silent to the execution of Motiur Rahman Nizami who was martyred a couple of days ago," Erdogan said in a televised speech in Istanbul."Have you heard anything from Europe? ... No. Isn't it called double standards?" Erdogan said.Nizami, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged at a Dhaka jail late Tuesday. He was accused of ordering the killing of intellectuals during the 1971 conflict.The 73-year-old former government minister was the fifth and the most senior opposition figure executed since the secular government in the overwhelmingly Muslim nation set up a controversialwar crimes tribunal in 2010.The 1971 conflict, one of the bloodiest in world history, led to the creation of an independent Bangladesh from what was then East Pakistan.Prosecutors said Nizami was responsible for setting up the pro-Pakistani Al-Badr militia, which killed top writers, doctors and journalists in the most gruesome chapter of the war.The trial heard Nizami ordered the killings, designed to "intellectually cripple" the fledgling nation.In protest, Turkey on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Bangladesh for consultations.Since coming to power in 2002, Turkey's ruling Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) has sought to boost the country's power in the Muslim world.Last year, Erdogan condemned a death sentence handed to Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi, who was a close ally of Ankara until he was overthrown by the