Commerce Commission requesting permission to acquire control of the Central of Georgia Railway Company through stock ownership. In its report and order dated November 14, 1958, the Commission reversed a previous order of Division 4 of the Commission (295 ICC 563) which had recommended the approval of the application filed, and found that by virtue of its large purchases of both preferred and common stock of the Central of Georgia Railway the defendant had already secured this control by the time it had filed its application. Further the Commission found that this action on the part of the defendant was in violation of Section 5, Paragraph (4) of Interstate Commerce Act, for that the defendant had not acquired permission from the Commission to gain control of another Railway,that the actions of the defendant were in furtherance of a conspiracy to lessen competition and create a monopoly, in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, and Section 7 of the Clayton Act. In the process of acquiring this stock the plaintiff contends the defendant upset the normal balance of supply and demand, thereby causing the value of the stock to rise unnaturally. For that reason the plaintiff contends that he was forced to purchase four hundred shares to cover his short sales, at a substantially higher price than he would normally have had to pay, and on this theory he asserts such to be the basis for his loss and the grounds upon which he should recover in this action.
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Category:German male film actorsthe Treasury £900m – the first negative reading since 1981 – as the plunge in sales slashed the tax haul and businesses put off their bills, meaning rebates to companies exceeded the amount paid.

Collections from households plunged by more than £6bn with lower income tax, national insurance and capital gains tax payments after a surge in unemployment.

Corporation tax receipts were just over £4bn lower than in April 2019.

The Office for National Statistics data showed comfortably the highest borrowing on record stretching back to January 1993 as the Government moved towards wartime levels of spending to tackle the outbreak.

Britain's national debt has also jumped £118.4bn or 17pc in a single year to £1.9 trillion, its biggest yearly increase on record.

It means debts could soon reach more than 100pc of


or focusing on addressing the newly expanded debt burden.”

Mr Sunak hopes the cost of the scheme will start to come down as parts of the economy reopen and workers can go back to factories, building sites and offices.

From August employers will have to pick up a slice of the cost of the furlough programme, which pays workers up to £2,500 per month.

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It means those 8m workers are not unemployed, but there was still a steep rise in joblessness. More than 850,000 people signed up for unemployment benefits last month, the biggest increase since early 1947 when severe snows temporarily froze the economy.

At the same time the number of job vacancies available in the three months to April dived by 170,000, the steepest fall since the ONSThe UK government has today issued workplace guidelines for employers on hiring, retaining and supporting transgender staff.

The Government Equalities Office publication, The recruitment and retention of transgender staff – guidance for employers, has been produced in conjunction with workplace diversity advocacy organization, Inclusive Employers.

A government statement says that the aim of the guide is ‘to provide employers with practical advice, suggestions and ideas on the recruitment and retention of transgender employees and potential employees.’

It also carries information of interest to managers of trans staff, and to transgender employees themselves.

In a statement, Nicky Morgan, Minister for Women and Equalities said: ‘This government is committed to ensuring that everyone can fulfill their potential, including transgender and non-binary people.

‘Many transgender people still face discrimination in the workplace, as well as in


HARRISBURG, Pa., June 28, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The State Museum of Pennsylvania today announced the winners of "Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2015," an annual juried exhibition showcasing the talent, creativity and diversity of the state's established and emerging artists.

Awards were given in painting, photography, sculpture, craft and work on paper.

The William D. Davis Memorial Award for Drawing and The State Museum of Pennsylvania Purchase Award were also selected. The winners were chosen from 126 works selected from more than 1,600 submissions.

This year's first-prize winners are from Adams, Allegheny, Blair, Chester and Lebanon counties. Special awards went to artists from Bucks and Delaware counties.

The 48th annual exhibit runs through Sept. 13, and includes 126 works by 122 artists from 27 counties.

The exhibit is co-sponsored by The State Museumand Jump Street. Together the organizations present more than $6,500 in cash awards to winners.

Jump Street is a Harrisburg-based non-profit organization dedicated to developing educational and economic opportunities with the arts for all age groups.

The State Museum of Pennsylvania, adjacent to the State Capitol in Harrisburg, is one of 25 historic sites and museums administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission as part of the Pennsylvania Trails of History®. The State Museum offers expansive collections interpreting Pennsylvania's fascinating heritage.

With exhibits examining the dawn of geologic time, the Native American experience, the colonial and revolutionary era, a pivotal Civil War battleground, and the commonwealth's vast industrial age, The State Museum demonstrates that Pennsylvania's story is America's story.

Visit The State Museum online at www.statemuseumpa.org.

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The following


prizes were awarded at the 2015 "Art of the State" Artists' Reception on Sunday, June 28. Cash awards for each category are first prize, $500; second prize, $300; third, $200, and honorable mention, $100. A full gallery of Art of the State images is available at www.flickr.com/photos/patrailsofhistory.

Craft

First Prize: Mike Korsak, Pittsburgh: "Untitled"

Second Prize: Philip Sollman, Bellefonte: "Lunar Butterfly Table"

Third Prize: Tom Hubert, Fairview: "Black Shape Teapot"

Honorable Mention: Ellen Silberlicht, Honesdale: "The Planted Seed"

Painting

First Prize: Allen Capriotti, Altoona: "Risky Business"

Second Prize: Ellen Carver, Merion Station: "A New Beginning"

Third Prize: Lauren Litwa Holden, Media: "Tekla's Ladder"

Honorable Mention: Daniel Burns, Lancaster: "Redemption"

Photography

First Prize: James Evangelista, Oxford: "Santa Rosa de Lima, Abiquiu"

Second Prize: Bryson Leidich, Harrisburg: "Blacksburg Sheep"

Third Prize: Marvin Israel, Boiling Springs: "Pipe and Glasses"

Honorable Mention: Peter Kornweiss, Hummelstown: "Palazzo Ducale"

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(Story devised with help from Kentwolf.)

The Acme Doll Company, located in a sprawling industrial park in Western Long Island, received an unusual visitor one autumn Monday morning at 11:00 am sharp. The woman who approached the receptionist was blonde, lovely, and dressed in an attractive white blouse and charcoal-gray skirt that were just barely conservative enough to be business attire. And she was surely not more than three feet tall. She had to stand well back from the front desk for the receptionist to see her at all.

"I have an appointment with Mr. Kittredge," said the miniature woman, so nervous that her high-pitched voice cracked. The receptionist stared at her, but the young woman was accustomed to that reaction.

"Mr. Kittredge Sr. or Jr.?" asked the receptionist. "Oh, I'm


not sure," said the little blonde, suddenly worried. "Maybe I should come back another time?" She involuntarily started backing toward the door, even though she had traveled all the way from the city.

"Is your name Caroline Parker?" asked the receptionist, looking at her schedule. "Have a seat, please. Mr. Kittredge will be with you shortly."

Still looking uneasy, the tiny but perfectly formed woman walked to the far side of the waiting room and stood waiting. Climbing into a chair was a project she didn't feel like undertaking at the moment.

Charles Kittredge Jr. was all of 23 years old, a shy, socially awkward boy who was the operating manager of his family business. He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw little Caroline Parker, whose black high-heels didcourse," said the tiny woman, perched precariously on the edge of her chair. Charles rose, left the office, walked straight to the men's room, entered a stall, and started jerking off furiously. Within ten seconds his jizz hit the wall, still rising, like a Babe Ruth homer in Yankee Stadium. He slouched against the stall door, breathing heavily. His impossible fantasy was sitting right in front of him in his office! A fantasy so crazy he never dared dream it could come true! Looking down, he saw that he hadn't lost his erection at all, and immediately started masturbating again.

In the fullness of time he returned to his office. "Sorry about the delay," he said awkwardly.

"That's okay," said the beautiful little woman.

"Nature calls," he said. 'Shut up, you


to be polite about it."

"I think I trust you, Mr. Kittredge," said Caroline, smiling.

Charles sighed in relief. "Call me Charles, please," he said.

----

On the fateful Saturday morning at 3 am, little Caroline clambered out of her taxi and rang the Acme warehouse doorbell. Under her trenchcoat, she was wearing a tight-fitting leotard, as Charles had requested.

A woman who worked at the factory answered the door. After the usual surprise at Caroline's stature, the factory girl led her to the machine room, where Charles was waiting. The room was the size of an airplane hangar, and was filled with strange equipment and conveyor belts.

"Thank you, Gina," said Charles. Looking suspiciously at the little blonde, Gina exited.

"I wish you had answered the door yourself," said Caroline. She was more evenmore nervous than on her last visit.

"Sorry," said Charles. "I didn't think it mattered."

"She suspects something," said Caroline.

"We're not breaking the law or anything. She'll be in the inspection area for the rest of the night, and you'll never see her again."

"What is she inspecting?"

"We'll be filling orders all night. The process is entirely automated, but a human inspector has to check all the dolls before they leave the factory."

"Charles, I'm having second thoughts about this," said Caroline.

Charles looked down at Caroline, forgetting to hide his disappointment. "Well...it's up to you, of course," he said.

"I don't know what to do," said Caroline, putting her head in her hand. She paced prettily back and forth, barely covering any ground.

Charles was at a loss for words. "You must like this


the insides of the machine. "Do you want a boost?" said Charles, a little too casually.

"Please," she said. Charles picked the tiny girl up by the waist and lifted her into mid-air, showing her the conveyor belt that carried materials into the depths of the system. Caroline seemed to him to weigh nothing at all. Charles hoped that the system would fascinate her so much that she wouldn't notice his sudden erection.

"Do the dolls come out the other end all boxed up and ready to go?" asked Caroline.

"No, that's a separate system," said Charles. "There's a second system for clothing and accessories, and a third for packaging.'

Charles put Caroline down and walked her to the other side of the conveyor belt, where he lifted a puppet-like object outof a rolling bin. It was a human figure, exactly Caroline's size, with facial and body features but no fine detail. He held the object up next to Caroline, its limbs dangling.

"That's a doll?" she asked.

"It will be," he said. He dropped the figure at Caroline's feet: it collapsed in a tiny pile, its limbs and joints folding loosely on top of each other.

"Why is it so floppy?" she asked.

"It has to be shaped into various different positions, and it has to be partially posable," said Charles. "The first thing that happens is that this template is covered in a thin coat of rubber, the density of which we can control, square centimeter by square centimeter. The coat is hardened where we want the doll to be immovable,


and softened where we want the doll to be posable."

"Why is it so anatomically correct?" Caroline asked, suspiciously.

"Uh...different countries want..." Charles, faltered, embarrassed.

"Different countries?"

"Japan, especially," said Charles, looking at the ground.

"These aren't sex dolls, are they?" said Caroline.

"No, they're perfectly normal children's dolls," said Charles, vehemently.

"They're pretty sexy for children's dolls," said Caroline.

"Let me show you," said Charles. They walked to the far end of the system, where a row of naked dolls were lying in a row on a rolling platform, waiting to be fed into the clothing system, their eyes closed as if sleeping. The formerly featureless dolls had emerged from the shaping system with surprisingly lifelike features and a great deal of bodily detail. All the dolls were in the same posture, arms open inintake area of the first system. Caroline seemed resigned to what she was about to do, and was in an odd, almost light-hearted mood.

"So, now..." said Charles, and stopped.

"Yes?"

"I have to measure you."

"Okay. Should I take this off?"

"Yes, please," said Charles.

Caroline took off her tiny trenchcoat and threw it aside. She stood in a black leotard that revealed her miniature but perfect figure. Caroline's proportions were lavish: if she were a normal height, her bust and hip measurements would probably be about 40 inches each. But the extra flesh fore and aft looked just right on someone her size.

Charles tried to keep his composure. "I'm sorry there are no chairs for you here," he said.

"I can sit up there, if you'll help me," said Caroline. Charles gingerly lifted


Caroline.

"Sure," Charles said. "What do you mean?"

"You know what I mean," she said.

Charles stared down at the computer screen in embarrassment. "Any woman in the world would notice when she has the effect on a man that I'm having on you," Caroline said. "And definitely a woman whose eyes are at your crotch level."

Blood was pounding in Charles' ears. But Caroline didn't seem offended. "You didn't found this business, did you?"

"My father did," murmured Charles. "But he's semi-retired."

"Does he enjoy his work too?"

"I think dolls are just a way of making a living for him," said Charles. "But I grew up here."

"I see. You have fond memories?"

"The first time I remember walking around this floor, I wasn't even as tall as..." Charles stopped.

"As me?" said Caroline.

"As the dolls,"said Charles.

He left the computer console and looked at Caroline. "If we're going to make the morning delivery, we'd better get going," he said hastily.

"I'm ready," said Caroline.

"Wait, the tape measure! I left it in my office," said Charles, distressed.

"Go get it then," said Caroline. "I thought you did this for a living."

"I never measured a doll manually in my life!" said Charles. "Wait a minute, I'll be right back."

He ran out of the warehouse. Caroline smiled to herself. The boy was pretty, though way too young for her. But the attention she was getting was nice. She stretched and leaned back, right into the electric-eye sensors of the system's intake unit. Before she could even scream, she was twenty feet inside the shaping system, held down by


robotic arms and half-peeled out of her leotard.

When Charles returned, Caroline was nowhere to be seen. He yelled her name several times, but received no answer. Why would she wander around? It couldn't have been that easy for her to get down from her perch. Did she have another attack of cold feet, and decide to abort her crazy plan? But her trenchcoat was still where she threw it: she wouldn't have left it behind, would she? He called her name again, walking the length of the system.

Five feet from where he was standing, Charles' new friend had been crammed into a small heating unit, the shape of a doll's body. Caroline had already been stripped naked and doused in a hot, thick rubbery substance that clung toher tiny curves. The lid of the heating unit had been closed, and a coat of rubber doll skin was being baked onto her with infrared radiation, at the precise temperature appropriate for each part of her. Charles heard the machinery working, but it was the most familiar sound in the world to him, and Caroline's muffled cries were inaudible inside the doll oven.

The panicky Charles made a quick tour of the entire machine room, checking in every corner. Exhausted, he came to rest at the rolling platform he had shown Caroline, where two newly shaped dolls were waiting to be fed into the clothing system. Thanks to the speed of the shaping system, Caroline was one of them. If Charles had been alert to all possibilities, he


might have noticed that he was standing next to a doll with a hefty set of tits, not an item that his company specialized in.

Interestingly, Caroline's lush figure was the only obvious way she could be clearly distinguished from any other product of the factory. Her face had been molded into an adorable doll-like pout, with O-shaped red lips and arched eyebrows, and painted in bright skin tones. And her natural blonde hair had been pasted to her scalp by her rubber coating, and covered with a luxurious head of flowing, tight whitish-yellow curls. Caroline's legs were slightly parted, and a sharp observer could have noted that, even covered in hardened rubber, she made the most anatomically correct doll in Acme's history.

The doll next to Caroline was suddenlyflipped over onto an adjoinng belt and sucked into the clothing system. Another doll zipped out of the shaping system and was deposited by Caroline's side. Unable to move a muscle, in a pose identical to all the other dolls in this batch - arms at her side, open palms pointed forward, in a gesture of welcome to the little girl who would be her new owner - the naked, rubber-coated assistant branch manager was mentally screaming for Charles to rescue her. He came so close to her that his hand brushed against her tiny pink-tipped rubberized toes. But her face looked so adorable and happy, and so identical to the inviting faces of the other dolls, that no one would have guessed her mental anguish. She might


have been able to gesture with her eyes, but she had been laid flat on the belt, and her glued-on, butterfly-like artificial eyelashes were magnetically sealed as long as she remained supine. In a few more seconds, the clothing system was ready for Caroline: she was flipped onto the belt, her protuberant little ass facing up, and was whisked quickly away to be enveloped in lace and taffeta.

After hours of searching, Charles headed wearily home, not knowing what to do next. He had Caroline's phone number, but she wasn't answering. Thinking about whether to report a missing person, he arrived at his apartment as the sun was rising.

In his living room, flat on the floor, was a familiar site: an Acme doll box. It wasn't the first timethat the morning delivery truck had deposited packages in his apartment: the front desk kept a copy of his keys. But he hadn't been expecting a delivery, and there were currently no new product lines that required his approval.

Amazed, he walked over and peered into the box. It took him a while to be sure, but the beautiful little doll inside simply had to be Caroline.

The tiny bank manager had expected to be in a doll box by this time, but she had never dreamed that she would have been turned into an actual doll before being placed in it. She had been done up with all the trimmings. The hard rubber skin that held her perfectly still gleamed brightly with the reflected light of the sun coming


through the window. Her eyebrows had been painted black and full; her black eyelashes were so long that they brushed against the clear plastic window of her packaging. Her cheeks had been painted a rosy pink; her lips were colored a dark, shiny red, and curved into a perfect circle. Her new head of flowing, curly hair filled the upper half of her box and framed her perfect and blissful features.

She was wearing a frilly gingham dress covered with bows and lace, not designed to contain the bulge of her heavy breasts, which pushed threateningly against the fabric. The skirt of her dress dissolved into a cascade of lace that stopped short enough to reveal the crotch of her little white panties, adorned with a row of tinypink bows down the middle. The curves of her shiny naked thighs and calves were startling and provocative emerging from so many layers of girlish undergarments. They tapered to white socks with multiple rows of frills and tiny black patent-leather slippers on her diminutive feet. Plastic zip ties that had been sealed by heat fastened her tight to a durable pink and blue cardboard sheet against the rear wall of her container.

Charles picked up the card attached to the box. It said, "I believe this belongs to you. Gina." Charles wasn't surprised: there was only one human intelligence on the night shift who could have shipped Caroline to him. Even if he hasn't seen the slight fog of Caroline's breath on the box's plastic window, Charles knew that


Caroline had to be okay if Gina had inspected her and concluded that her boss was going in for kinky sex games.

There was absolutely no expression on Charles' face as he grabbed the box and placed it on its end, so that Caroline was head up. The little doll's eyes popped open. Unlike the rest of her, they looked human: blue, pleading, with tears in the corners. Yet the rest of Caroline's face was happy, inviting and adorable. Charles sat on the floor in front of the box and met Caroline's desperate eyes, which she was unable to close against the magnetic field that held them wide open. He looked down at her lacy panties. There was an unmistakable patch of dampness right at the bottom. He lookedback at Caroline's doll face, which returned his stare helplessly. She had followed his glance, and there was a new trace of alarm in her eyes.

"This is too much," said Charles, quietly. The little Caroline doll looked back at him, lips prettily rounded and open. Charles had a strange expression on his face that she had never seen, and his voice was getting louder with each word he spoke. "I'm not a criminal," he said, "I've never done anything wrong in my life, but every man has his breaking point, and I've just hit mine!"

Jumping to his feet, Charles unzipped his pants, whipped out his erect dick, and started masturbating feverishly, inches from Caroline's rubber-coated face. He seemed to be casting aside 23 years of inhibition. "Ohhh, God!,"


he yelled. "You and that damned boyfriend of yours...Well, he's not the only one who has ideas about what to do with a doll! I've been piling up those ideas all my life! Later on, you can visit me in jail and tell me which one of us had the better imagination! Oh, Jesus!" Charles came hard all over the plastic window of Caroline's box. Her face was invisible until Charles retrieved a tissue and wiped the jizz away. The Caroline doll was still looking innocently and happily at him.

"Okay, little doll. Here we go," said Charles.

Caroline's eyes snapped involuntarily shut as her box was placed flat again. "Well, at least I was all ready for this to happen today," she thought. "My legs are shaved, I tookElectronic music and video games have always been one of the entertainment industry’s strongest power couples. Forza, a popular racing game series, has included many notable artists on their games such as Nero, Skrillex, Justice and more. Now, World of Warcraft has given more ground to this statement through their latest expansion.

The new game features pieces of armor explicitly named after Porter Robinson and Eric Prydz, showing Blizzard Entertainment‘s love for the two astounding producers. Prydz received a shoutout from the notorious game producer through the neckpiece ‘Prydaz, Xavaric’s Magnum Opus’. The use of his moniker Pryda and naming of his latest album Opus is a strong indicator that the game creators were trying to pay tribute to this legendary producer.

Porter Robinson also receives tribute from the gaming


mogul. A legendary chest piece named ‘Ekowraith, Creator of Worlds’ directly pays homage to the Worlds producer when he made music under the moniker Ekowraith. During this stage of his career, he was heavily influenced by Dance Dance Revolution as can be seen in songs such as “Back In The Game“. The armor description even quotes a direct line from “Fellow Feeling”.

Unison Spaulders is yet another piece of armor that pays tribute to the young Worlds producer. It references Porter’s “Unison” from his debut EP Spitfire and includes lyrics that he uses consistently in his live show.

Below are a couple tracks that show why the World of Warcraft team chose these two magnificent producers to mention in their latest game.Sonata for Flute and Piano

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Commissioned by the Texas Music Teachers Association. I was fortunate enough to work with two outstanding performers (Dr. Diane Boyd Schultz, and Dr. James Pitts) and the resulting piece, as well as its premiere in Arlington, were great successes. The movement titles came after the notes were finished, so the work is not programmatic nor representative as such, but the names do serve to express the moods and ideas I was attempting to convey. "Wide Blue Run" (a wide intermediate slope in skiing parlance) focuses on form, speed, exhilaration, beauty and grandeur. "Memory Dance" is a much more introspective and moody journey. The melodic figures seemed dance-like to me, but without the immediacy of the present. As I composed, the


Certain Retiree Benefits Under Group Term Life Insurance Policy with Minnesota Life Insurance Company (Document # 1688) (the "Retiree Benefits Motion"). The second is the Debtors' Motion for Order Authorizing (I) the Termination of Certain Executive and Director Benefits and (II) Rejection of Certain Executory Employment Agreements (Document # 1689) (the "Executive Benefits Motion"). Both Motions were filed on December 11, 2002. The Court conducted a hearing on both Motions on January 28, 2003, at the United States Courthouse in Kansas City, Missouri, and took the Retiree Benefits Motion under advisement at that time. Because of a scheduling conflict for counsel, the Court held a continued hearing on February 11, 2003, on the Objections of twelve retired executives[1] to the Executive Benefits Motion and then took that Motion   4,100,000.00
  Union Equity Plan                5,600,000.00
  Director Life Plan &
  Supplemental Life Plan           2,599,000.00

1. Executive Deferred Compensation Plan
Under the Deferred Comp Plan, certain executives of the Debtors were allowed to defer portions of their salaries until a later date (specified by the Executives) so as to gain certain tax benefits. Approximately 138 current and former employees of the Debtors participate in the Deferred Comp Plan. In addition to their deferred compensation, the Executives are entitled to receive an additional distribution, called a Retirement Adjustment Payment, to replace the loss in retirement benefits that occurs because of the salary


Dollar Agreements with the directors, which provide that the Debtors are the owners of the insurance policies and require that the Debtors pay *910 the premiums thereon, and the individual directors designate the beneficiaries of the policies. The Split Dollar Agreements entered into with individuals who became members of the Board prior to 1999 are slightly different than those executed in 1999 and thereafter. The pre-1999 Split Dollar Agreements allow the Debtors to terminate the arrangement at any time and to discontinue the life insurance without the Board member's consent, although the Debtors must provide the members with notice of termination of the program. The Split Dollar Agreements entered into in 1999 and thereafter prevent the Debtors from terminating an individual's life insurance after the individual has completedhis or her term on the Board or has retired or become disabled. Additionally, the director would have the option to buy out the applicable policy for the lesser of (i) the Debtors' interest in the policy or (ii) the cash surrender value of the policy.
The Debtors assert that those current and retired Board members who are subject to the pre-1999 Split Dollar Agreements would have no claim against the Debtors because the Debtors have the right to cancel the life insurance benefits unilaterally, at any time and without the member's consent. As for those members who are covered by Split Dollar Agreements entered into in 1999 and thereafter, their life insurance benefits have vested and those individuals would possibly have a claim against Farmland with respect to


those benefits, the Debtors state.
Under the agreements, the current and former Board members have the right to purchase their life insurance policies from the Debtors. Because some of the individuals affected might not be able to obtain other life insurance coverage, Farmland intends to give the members the option to purchase their insurance policies so as to continue the coverage at their own cost. The Debtors would, however, be permitted to realize the cash surrender value of the policies. In addition to saving over $246,000 a year in insurance premiums, the Debtors would realize about $2.4 million in proceeds from surrender of the policies.
5. Supplemental Director Life Insurance Plan
In addition to the regular Director Life Plan, the Debtors maintain a program to provide supplemental life insurance benefits toBoard members who are elected to the Board for a second term. This Plan provides each eligible Board member with an additional $100,000 in life insurance coverage. Presently, 16 active Board members and five retired Board members participate in the Supplemental Life Plan. As with the Director Life Plan, Farmland has entered into Split Dollar Agreements with the Board members participating in the Plan. Participating members are the owners of their individual insurance policies, but they are required to collaterally assign the policies to Farmland during their terms on the Board. Farmland is obligated to pay the cost of the premiums on each individual's policy for the longer of 10 years or the length of time the individual serves on the Board after election to a second term.


he received from Farmland in 1990 stating that vesting in the Split Dollar Life Insurance program would occur after 10 years with the company and upon reaching the age of 55. (Retired Executives' Ex. 102) Warren also believed that, upon his retirement, his life insurance would be paid up for the rest of his life, based on another document he received in 1990. (Retired Executives' Ex. 103) However, *912 Warren acknowledged on cross examination that he had received and signed a new agreement in 1993 that gave Farmland the right to terminate the life insurance. Warren testified that many of the Retired Executives made retirement decisions based on having the insurance coverage in effect for the rest of their lives.
At the hearing on February 11, counsel for theto reject four employment agreements that the Debtors contend are executory contracts. These are the employment agreements (the "Employment Agreements") of the former president and chief executive officer of Farmland, Robert W. Honse ("Honse"); the former chief financial officer of Farmland, John F. Berardi ("Berardi"); the former president of Farmland Foods, Inc., William Fielding ("Fielding"); and another former president and chief executive officer of Farmland, H.D. Cleberg ("Cleberg") (collectively, the "Former Officers"). Under the terms of the Employment Agreements, the Debtors remain obligated to pay severance and other benefits to the Former Officers and  in return  the Former Officers are obligated to provide consulting services as needed, cooperate with the Debtors, and refrain from competition or interference with the Debtors' businesses. The Debtors' costs under these


the SERP, the Union Equity Plan, and the Director Deferred Comp Plan are plans or programs established by the Debtors that provide for the payment of deferred compensation and enhanced retirement benefits. These plans or programs, therefore, are not encompassed within § 1114, and the Debtors need not comply with the requirements of § 1114 in order to terminate these plans or programs. The question is whether the Debtors have exercised sound business judgment in determining that termination of the plans or programs is in the Debtors' best economic interests.
According to the Executive Benefits Motion and the McCoy Affidavit, the Debtors' liabilities to the participants in the Deferred Comp Plan, the SERP, and the Director Deferred Comp Plan are at least $26 million (no amount of liability isResources of Farmland, which were offered in evidence, without objection, by the Debtors in support of the Motions. Also, none of the factual allegations in either of the Motions has been challenged.
[4]  There are five Debtors in these jointly administered Chapter 11 proceedings: Farmland Industries, Inc., Farmland Foods, Inc., SFA, Inc., Farmland Pipe Line, Inc., and Farmland Transportation, Inc. Their bankruptcy petitions were filed on May 31, 2002 (the "Petition Date"). They will be referred to herein as "Debtors" or as "Farmland."
[5]  The Debtors are not proposing to terminate the life insurance benefits of approximately 120 disabled former employees. The Court previously approved the continuation of those benefits in an Order entered on June 5, 2002, shortly after the Debtors filed their bankruptcy petitions on May


a medium adhesion; and after a heavy lesion, a strong adhesion.

When Kreissig returned from New York to the Department of Ophthalmology in Bonn, Germany in 1972, she started to treat retinal detachments with this new technique, consisting of trans-scleral cryopexy with ophthalmoscopic control of every lesion around the break and a sponge buckle limited to the area of the break and this without drainage of subretinal fluid. After operating with this new localized atraumatic surgery on retinal detachments for 5 years, Kreissig[@ref20] reported the favorable results in 1978. Subsequently this was followed by her numerous teaching courses on this so-called minimal surgery without drainage in various countries and up to the end of 2015 there have been 114 such courses. However, soon it was realized that the spontaneousand large, they had worked out effective teamwork strategies with the infantry, tank destroyers, and artillery, even if still a bit ambivalent about their friends in the fighter-bombers above them. They had learned to beat better tanks and worked out a series of pragmatic technical solutions to problems ranging from communication to moving on ice.

The German Army fought on like a body without a brain—OKW records show it was often a couple days behind developments on the battlefield, and headquarters at all levels had difficulty delivering orders to units that often existed only on paper. Lt. Gen. George Patton’s G-2 shop estimated that as of March 17, total German tank strength on the western front amounted to the equivalent of a single full-strength panzer division.1 As of March


31, the entire force of panzers and assault guns in Third Army’s sector was estimated at only 55 vehicles, all opposite XX Corps in the Fulda area.2

Cornelius Ryan captured the essence of the final push: “The race was on. Never in the history of warfare had so many men moved so fast. The speed of the Anglo-American offensive was contagious, and all along the front, the drive was taking on the proportions of a giant contest.”3 So fast, indeed; between April 24 and 30, the 737th Tank Battalion moved 520 miles.4

The Ninth Army pounded in the direction of Berlin all the way to the Elbe River. Just to the    south, First Army advanced to the Mulde River. Patton’s Third Army drove toward Czechoslovakia, and SeventhTo link to this object, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed this object, paste this HTML in website

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and enjoyed the seclusion but also hired taxi to Patong ($10 US each way)for the nights we wanted to party. Also arranged renting motor scooter at hotel without any hassle or problems.

Reservation service:

Date: Dec 27, 2011written by: Genaro Velez

Date of stay: Dec 29, 2010

Accommodation and facilities:
Awesome place!

Reservation service:

Date: Jan 17, 2011written by: Hannah

Date of stay: Apr 15, 2010

Accommodation and facilities:
Beautiful place, very quiet, peaceful, like having your own small place in the jungle, staff was excellent, everyone was wonderful, I will stay here again

Reservation service:
Everything worked great, good service

Date: Apr 18, 2010written by: Woodie L Beardsley

Date of stay: Feb 14, 2010

Accommodation and facilities:
Dream hotel with amazing manager,the best of managers,very friendly staff,fascinating resort with great pool villas.We would like stay here forever.

Reservation service:

Date: Mar 08, 2010written by: LenkaBelakova

Date of stay: Dec 05, 2009

Accommodation and facilities:
This is a spectacular little resort. Private, quiet and the grounds are lovely. Service is brilliant and for those lokking for a few days to totally chill out hen this is the place. Our Pool Front Villa was large and perfectly appointed. Thorughly recommend this unique resort.

Accommodation and facilities:
The hotel was beautiful, peaceful, very quiet and the staff was very friendly. The room was very clean and the location was perfect- right across the street from the beach and within walking distance of places to eat and shop. We loved our time and the spa was heavenly also!

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Date: Oct 15, 2008written by: Jessica Rader

Date of stay: May 01, 2008

Accommodation and facilities:
It is like a small village in fact with bengalows.


the heart of Karon. Serene gardens are the perfect backdrop
for the villa style accommodation, which blends distinctive southern
Thai architecture with the incredible natural beauty of the surroundings.
Yet, this private world of 34 villas is only a 5 minute walk from the bustling Karon beach,
where dazzling white sands and crystal clear waters abound.

Step from the terrace of your villa into the refreshing waters of the pool,
chill out in the mountain-view jacuzzi or unwind at the Royal Spa,
where a full range of pampering massages, body treatments and facials are available.
Then, tantalise the taste buds as the gourmet cuisine of the Tamnak Bhrachandra Restaurant beacons.

Delicious dining is always an option at The Village, in our elegant
and atmospheric restaurant

The Tamnak Bhrachandra The Tamnak Bhrachandra creates the perfect backdrop for a
romantic interlude withThai cuisine. The sculptured shapes of the domed
architecture, the leaves of the tropical trees reflecting in the shimmering
waters of the pool and the gentle lighting from the lanterns, all conspire
to create a delightful setting. And, to create further harmony, elements
of traditional and contemporary Thai cooking work seamlessly together
to create a unique dining experience.

Capacity: 60 seatsService Hour: 6:30
- 22:30 hrs

Tamnak
Dao - Pool BarCanapés, poolside snacks and a wide choice of beverages are served at
the Tamnak Dao, an elegant poolside terrace. In addition, under water
stools at the swim up bar are the perfect place to perch after a refreshing
dip.

In Room DiningA wide variety of international and Thai favourites are available in
the privacy of your own room. Room service is available from 06:30 to
22:30.

RECREATION, SPA & OUTDOOR FACILITIES

Thai Cooking ClassesIn addition,


and
features its own garden, steam room and bathroom. Concealed only from
the elements by a huge skylight, the rain shower and luxurious over
sized bathtub feel like they are part of the great outdoors.

Whilst a harmonious selection of massages, body scrubs, body wraps
and facials can be experienced, the Royal Spa has several signature
treatments for which it renowned. As the scent of aromatherapy oils
fill the air, be swept away in pure pleasure as the therapists perform
the Royal Experience Massage. This full body massage loosens tightened
muscles to improve the flow of energy and blood circulation. Alternatively,
try the Royal Stone Therapy, which uses a 5,000 year old concept to
release all the stress from your body, resulting in a deep sense of
euphoria, as heated black volcanic stones are used to give a deep tissue
massage.

Swimming40 / 76 Rows of burned Joshua tress line the landscape as the head of the Erskine Fire burns in the background Saturday morning in Weldon, Calif. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) 41 / 76 The sun sets as smoke fills the air looking west toward Lake Isabella. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 42 / 76 A car along Kelso Valley Road east of Lake Isabella burns during the Esrkine fire Friday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 43 / 76 Lt. Kyle Newton of the Tulare County Fire Department waters down the ashes of a home on Seclusion Road at Wildwood that was destroyed by the Erskine fire. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) 44 / 76 Debris at a home on McCray Road where


they are engulfed in flames, in Weldon, Calif. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) 49 / 76 A trailer is engulfed by flames, on South Kelso Valley Road, in Weldon, Calif. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) 50 / 76 Fire engulfs homes along South Kelso Valley Road, in Weldon, Calif., on June 24, 2016. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) 51 / 76 Lt. Kyle Newton from Tulare County Fire waters down smoke rising from a home on Seclusion Road that was destroyed by flames in the Erskine Fire. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) 52 / 76 The wildfire still rages on in the mountains after it tore through a South Lake neighborhood in Lake Isabella. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) 53 / 76 RobertLarsen, a fire evacuee, takes a nap at Kernville Elementary School. (Harrison Hill / Los Angeles Times) 54 / 76 Fire burns in the mountains far behind a home on Sagebrush Road destroyed in the Erskine Fire. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) 55 / 76 Louis Reyes comforts his wife Kimberly Tieche outside of Kernville Elementary School after hearing that their house had burned down in the Erskine Fire. (Harrison Hill / Los Angeles Times) 56 / 76 The wildfire still rages on in the mountains after it tore through a South Lake neighborhood in Lake Isabella. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) 57 / 76 The aftermath of a wildfire destroying a South Lake neighborhood in Lake Isabella. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) 58 /


neighborhood in Lake Isabella, Calif. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) 62 / 76 Still smoldering, smoke rises from a destroyed stucture after the Erskine fire after it tore through the Squirrel Mountain Valley neighborhood in Lake Isabella, Calif. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) 63 / 76 The aftermath of the Erskine Wildfire after it tore through the Squirrel Mountain Valley neighborhood in Lake Isabella, Calif. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) 64 / 76 Firefighters from Cal Fire’s Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit pay close attention to a wildfire moving in from every direction in Kelso Valley as the blaze progresses east with the winds near Lake Isabella, Calif. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) 65 / 76 A charred landscape is left after the Erskine fire tore throughteapot and her ceramic unicorns. Lost were her baby book, vintage camera and film.

“My life,” she said.

As the fire continued to rage Sunday on the ridgelines surrounding the lake, a handful of parishioners at St. Peter’s Anglican Church gathered for a 10 a.m. service that included a moment of silence in honor of the two oldest members of their tiny congregation, victims of the wildfire.

Seven people showed up for the service at the church, a modest wood-framed house of worship on the outskirts of this resort community straddling the Kern River. The other half of the congregation was unable to attend because they were holdouts in nearby evacuation zones and worried that law enforcement authorities would prevent them from returning home.

The victims’ names were not mentioned in the


him that much more lovable….
"Oh no, it's a big sea monster!"
Adam Driver
Adam Driver has basically reached the pinnacle
of cinematic success by starring in the new
Star Wars movies—but any true Adam Driver
fan was a fan way back when, in the early
days of HBO's Girls, where even despite his
character's bad behavior, it was hard to overlook
his hunky body and off-the-charts acting chops.
Now that everyone's having weird sex dreams
about Kylo Ren we can only say, yeah, we told
you so.
It doesn't hurt that he finally grew his hair
out into a decidedly lion-esque mane.
Adam Driver forever.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
It seems like Maggie Gyllenhaal is always
at the top of the list of actresses that women
think are sexy, but men aren't so sure about.
Her unique look, keen fashion sense, and acting
talent definitely endears her to women and
menwho aren't afraid to think outside the
cookie-cutter, Barbie-doll box.
And we love that Gyllenhaal is outspoken about
damaging gender norms in Hollywood, telling
the Guardian that, at 37, she was told she
was "too old" to play opposite a 55-year-old
man.
Matt Smith
Dr. Who fans balk at any mention of actor
Matt Smith being weird looking—but the fact
of the matter is sometimes his mug does call
to memory those caricature sketches you get
at Disney World.
Smith's turn as Prince Philip on the Netflix
series The Crown introduced his English charm
and rather baffling good-looks to a whole
new audience.
His antics both on and off screen have secured
him a loyal fanbase, and it doesn't hurt that
in real life he's in a relationship with Downton
Abbey and Cinderella star Lily James.
Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton is one of those actors whose
strange, androgynous good-looks and porcelain
agelessness


Bulgaria Starts Talks on Gas Grid Interconnection with Turkey

Bulgaria starts talks for the construction of a gas grid interconnection with Turkey.

Bulgarian Economy and Energy MinisterDragomir Stoynev will meet with Turkey's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz on Friday in Sofia, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).

The two energy ministers will discuss the establishment of a working group on the project.

The completion of the gas grid interconnection will provide Bulgaria with access to gas fields in Azerbaijan, which are an alternative to gas supplies from Russia.

The gas grid interconnection is a key project for the attempts to achieve a gas supply diversification in Bulgaria and the region, taking into account that the Turkish grid has six entry points for gas supplies.

On March 20, 2012Kristin Baver is a journalist who loved science fiction before she could even write her own name. (Seriously, she was a card-carrying member of the Star Wars Fan Club when she had no other real reason to own a wallet.) Now she gets paid to pen stories and book reviews, interview fellow fans, writers, and other interesting people, and aspires to one day craft a Boushh disguise and join the ranks of the 501st Legion.

Charles Soule is about to embark on a dream job to answer some of the burning questions he’s had since he was a young fan growing up idolizing Luke Skywalker. For example, “How did Luke go from being a miserable dude with his hand cut off to being that black-uniform badass who waltzes into


The point system made it very clear for whoever was on the cusp to begin their visa application process if it was needed. As a result, while last year featured multiple players bowing out to visa issues, this year featured no such problems. This prevented last-minute scrambles on Capcom’s — as well as the players’ — side to get a full roster in Anaheim.

The last chance qualifier slot was definitely a great addition to the lineup. While there were a ton of players involved, grand finals came down to two players who had seriously good odds of taking Capcom Cup — Infiltration and Nemo. Nemo won, and proved how great this position could be by finishing third overall after a marathon session of matches in Anaheim.

Further, giving thesurprised if the CPT 2018 does not feature at least one Premier event in the Latin American region. These guys have shown that they deserve to be showcased on that level, and enticing all the top players to travel there will give these players exposure to the highest level of players and can only help their communities grow stronger.

Further, given some of the issues that Chinese players have with travel and internet, having just one Premier event in the mainland — and one in Hong Kong — is simply not enough. Banking on them making it out to Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam to qualify even for Asia regional finals is foolhardy as well. There are still strong players in China that aren’t getting showcased due to Capcom


HBO's beloved series "Sex and the City" was groundbreaking in its day, showcasing women in their 30s and 40s who were single, sexual and stylish. But looking back on the show more than 20 years after it premiered, actress Cynthia Nixon can see that it also had "a lot of failings of the feminist movement in it."

At least that's how Nixon, aka Miranda, described the series in an interview with IndieWire.

In the chat, ahead of the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of her drama "Stray Dolls," Nixon said "SATC" featured women looking too "quote-unquote perfect" and acknowledged it took place "in a bit of a bubble."

"Of course it's a feminist show," she said, but "it's like white, moneyed ladies who are fighting for their empowerment."

Nixon noted what hindsight hasLast week at the NBA Board of Governor's meeting, there were many questions for Sacramento's group and for the NBA on whether or not Sacramento had matched Seattle's bid. The bid was on everyone's mind considering a few weeks earlier David Stern publicly stated that Sacramento's offer was well short and featured a "substantial variance".

The questions were not definitively answered last week either, although worries about Sacramento's bid being short seemed to be alleviated when Commissioner David Stern told reporters as he was leaving that the bid was "not an issue".

Today we got the first definitive statement on Sacramento's bid, courtesy of CA State Senate pro Tem Darrell Steinberg.

Sen. Steinberg: "...Sacramento has made not only a fully competitive offer, but an offer that matches dollar-for-dollar the Seattle offer."


that doing exactly what he wanted when he wanted was the key to maintaining the vital spark that made him special, ordained for spectacular success.

That certainty had been part of his birthright. Born in 1899 to a secure black middle-class family in Washington, DC, he was assured by his doting mother that he was “blessed”. Ellington was an avid supporter of racial progress, of African-American respect and respectability. For him the essence of black experience was Washington’s vibrant music scene, where ragtime ruled and pianists charmed gorgeous ladies. The young Duke found it all irresistible. Ever ambitious, he was soon leading his own band. By 1924 they were playing in New York, and in 1927 they began their long residence at Harlem’s fabled Cotton Club, which made Ellingtonfamous.

His success was a product of his personal charisma (a rival bandleader described him as “more than suave”) and uncanny talent. Ellington transformed big-band jazz by fusing improvisational spontaneity with structural compositions. He turned individual voices into musical material, ensuring an Ellington piece had an organic unity, alive in the moment.

A trained musician as well as an acclaimed biographer of Louis Armstrong, another jazz giant, Mr Teachout adroitly chronicles how Ellington coaxed from his ensemble such timeless hits as “Mood Indigo”. And he adeptly evokes the personalities of the ducal band, a “rowdy crew of iron-willed individualists” who were almost as wilful as their leader. Though men like Johnny Hodges, an alto saxophonist, owed their fame to Ellington, they were also aware of his debt to them. Many


resented the way their improvisations became subsumed into the Ellingtonian canon, largely unacknowledged.

But as Mr Teachout makes clear, the band’s achievements proceeded from Ellington alone, and were as inseparable from him as his glittering personality. For half a century he kept his splendid show on the road, writing music not for posterity, but because he wanted to hear it now. The result was an unequalled body of work, from his string of 1940s classics, including his annual Carnegie Hall concerts, to the landmark performance that ignited the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival and relaunched his career, to his globetrotting during the 1960s and 1970s, which ceased only with his death from cancer in 1974. Through it all the man himself remained an enigma, keeping lovers and musicians alike atSCHOOLCRAFT, MI -- A 22-year-old Constantine man who accidentally shot himself in the leg in a business parking lot Wednesday may have more than a gunshot wound to worry about.

Because the accident happened inside the man's vehicle, the handgun is considered a concealed weapon, Schoolcraft police chief Bryan Campbell said.

The man is not licensed to carry a concealed weapon, he said.

"We will forward our findings to the prosecutor's office," Campbell said, including information about the gun's registration, which has not yet been determined.

Campbell said the man called 911 at 6:44 p.m. Jan. 13 advising he had shot himself in the thigh while dissembling his gun in his vehicle in a parking lot in the 700 block of N. Grand Street.

The victim was transported to Bronson Methodist Hospital in


off. The clockwork-like economy
has been seriously disrupted as traffic lights, ATMs, petrol pumps and
electronic checkout counters go on the blink and Californians stock up on
flashlights, candles, generators, wood-burning stoves and firewood. At the
Folsom headquarters of Intel, the company whose chips are powering most of
the world's computers, people are carrying on gamely with their work under
dim lights.
As the saying goes, "What California is today, we shall all be tomorrow" -
hence it is instructive to understand how the state got into this mess. The
deregulation law of 1996 attempted to create a market for wholesale power by
"unbundling" the generation, transmission and distribution functions -
something that is on the anvil in India too. However, the market was
hamstrung from the beginningby various flawed policies, including a "cap"
placed on the retail power tariff and a decision by the authorities to
disallow power companies the freedom to enter into long-term contracts for
power purchase. Also, the tough environmental regulations in the state and
the attitude of many local communities ("Not in my backyard") meant that old
power plants shut down, no new ones came up, and the generation within the
state actually went down over the last ten years. As the demand increased
steadily, particularly in the Silicon Valley with its power-guzzling "data
hotels" and "server farms", the state became ever more dependent on external
sources particularly from the Pacific Northwest. Rapid economic growth in the
northern states, and low water levels this season in the hydro-power dams,
meant


ESCAPED NEWSPAPERMEN, COOLING OUR JETS AND RECHARGING
THE OLD BRAIN PAN AS FELLOWS AT OXFORD'S REUTERS FOUNDATION. WHY DO I BRING
THAT UP? Because as of Monday I take up another fellowship, at Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government, at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press,
Politics and Public Policy, where I expect to learn some equally interesting
things. Like Oxford, it's another crossroads of the planet. So for the spring
semester I'll be sequestered. No columns from yours truly for four months.
Since I last sojourned in Cambridge as a skinny undergraduate, I've added
several notches on the beltline, a few zeros in the bank book, and many miles
on the odometer. I stood with the mob in front of Dillon Field House the day
McGeorge Bundy introducedin black," says Richard Johnson, who also
is sporting a "Clinton '92" button smack dab in the middle of chest.
Here comes another member passing out freshly minted bumper stickers reading,
"Don't Blame Me . . . I Didn't Vote For Jeb." Valerie Sloven has picked up a
few and is telling anyone who will listen that she's protesting the
inauguration by staging a voter- registration campaign at the SunValley Mall.
"You know," boasts Barbara Boyle, "except for (Assemblywoman Lynne) Leach,
we've almost gotten rid of all the Republicans."
Louise's husband, John Clark, is thumbing through the club's January
newsletter. In it is an anonymous poem, titled "Bipartisan Cooperation." The
last stanza reads:
Humor, apparently, proved therapeutic for the group of about 50, because the
mood is anything


but downcast. Perhaps "festively sarcastic" better describes
it.
"I was depressed, really depressed after the election," says Sloven of
Orinda. "But, after a while, you pick yourself up and fight back."
Boyle certainly seems ready to do battle. She had brought a back- issue of
Mother Jones magazine, which included an article about then- Texas Gov.
Bush's interests in Enron's controversial deal to put a pipeline in
Argentina. She reads aloud two paragraphs, then condemns what she calls a
"blatant conflict of interest."
Social hour over, Kasnoff brings the meeting to order. The guest speaker is
Severin Borenstein, director of the University of California Energy
Institute. Before Borenstein talks about energy deregulation and presents his
solutions to the crisis, Kasnoff introduces two women who are lobbying for
passageFor Blackouts in California
By Jim Carlton
Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

01/26/2001
The Wall Street Journal
B1
(Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)

SAN FRANCISCO -- The rolling blackouts in the San Francisco Bay area are
creating new demand for a long-overlooked source of power that is cheap,
plentiful and close by -- the wind.
One of the world's largest concentrations of wind turbines, some 7,000 of
them, are situated in the Altamont Pass, which separates the bay from
California's arid Central Valley. The windmills generate electricity at less
than half the cost of natural-gas-generated power, which has been running as
high as 15 cents to 20 cents per kilowatt-hour.
Passersby have for years poked fun at the windmills, which were built in the
wake of the last energy crisis in


the 1970s. Then, the state and federal
government backed the plentiful power source with tax credits and price
guarantees that proved lucrative to investors and provided the state with an
alternate source of cheap electricity. But when natural-gas prices fell in
the late 1980s, and the tax credits were pulled out, the windmill industry
collapsed from 12 turbine manufacturers to one and most power companies
turned back to cheap fossil fuels.
Now, with California utilities struggling to keep the state lit, this
alternative energy source is making a comeback as one, albeit slight,
solution to the West's energy crisis. "It's not a full answer, but it's part
of the answer," says Robert Morrison, vice president of renewable generation
for "windmill farm" developer FPL Energy LLC, a unit ofsoon. In California,
where they are most abundant, wind farms account for roughly 1.5% of the
state's electricity production, according to the American Wind Energy
Association, an industry trade group in Washington, D.C. The group is pushing
for federal legislation that could boost wind power to about 5% of the
nation's overall power generation over time, from the current three-tenths of
a percent.
The intermittent nature of wind gusts means wind farms can never be as
reliable as a traditional fuel source. But the flip side to that, say wind
proponents, is that the wind farms are so easy to build -- essentially
hoisting the towers and running cables to a substation -- that it takes only
a year from start to finish to put one in operation.


between three cents and five cents
a kilowatt-hour -- compared with as much as 20 cents from natural gas. The
project's timing is pefect. Terry Hudgens, PacifiCorp's senior vice president
of power supply, says the company's customers are pleading for power. "They
just want the energy," he says.
International
World Watch
Compiled by David I. Oyama

01/26/2001
The Wall Street Journal
A10
(Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)

ASIA/PACIFIC
Indian Utility May Miss Enron Payment
India's cash-strapped Maharashtra State Electricity Board was expected to
miss a deadline last night for paying 1.59 billion rupees ($34.3 million) to
Dabhol Power, a unit of Enron of the U.S., for electricity purchased in
December. It again raised the possibility of Enron invoking letters of credit
or guarantees provided by the state and federal governments to force payment.A former teacher has been arrested, accused of engaging in sexual activity with a 16-year-old boy.

According to detectives, 39-year-old Elisha Joy Kingsley befriended the victim while she was a teacher at Canterbury School of Florida, a private school in St. Petersburg.

Detectives said the suspect and the victim began texting each other via phone in mid-June and then they began to meet up at various locations throughout Pinellas County.

Detectives said the victim and the suspect engaged in sexual activity at an undisclosed location on or around July 5. Kingsley has been charged with one count of unlawful sexual activity with a minor.

Detectives said since Kingsley is a former teacher and had frequent contact with children, there could be other victims.

Mac Hall, Head of School, Canterbury School of Florida, released


teaching at a medical school, to providing expert consultations and are mostly underpinned by supplementary training. When these AMHC are seen as more prevalent among older doctors, they sometimes constitute the beginning of a career conversion or change of profession for older professionals who no longer wish to have a full time medical practice. These different kinds of AMHC are diverse, both in terms of the level of investment they require and in terms of their various levels of remuneration. The existence and practice of AMHC seem to serve as a response to the difficulties posed to the practice of general medicine while simultaneously being limited by it. The practice of these activities could be disrupted by changes in medical demography.this population, especially with regard to maternal, neonatal and child health.

To enhance understanding in this regard, a study was conducted on the Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Scenario among the urban poor, in the slums of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, in 2008. Meerut was selected for the study in view of being one of the largest cities in the programmatically high priority state of Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 1.07 million persons. It also has the highest slum population among cities in the state and is second highest after Mumbai in terms of slum-population ratio.

The study was conducted jointly by Urban Health Resource Centre, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Chatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Medical University. It was funded by United States Agency for International Development.

A Workshop


was organized in New Delhi to share the findings of the study on Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Scenario in the slums of Meerut: Implications for Program and Policy”, on 14th April 2009, at India International Centre.

The workshop brought together officials from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, State Governments of UP and Delhi, Meerut District Health Department, faculty from Meerut Medical College, King George Medical University (KGMU), Johns Hopkins University, and members of the National Neonatology Forum, who shared their experiences at the event.

Workshop Sessions

Dr Marta Levitt Dayal, MCH Star, presented an Overview of the Workshop, laying out the sessions for the day.

Professor Robert Black, Chair of the Dept of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, gave a presentation on the Global Overview ofIndia compared with other population groups based on an analysis of the Third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) conducted in 2005-06. A wealth index has been developed based on 33 assets and household characteristics. The bottom quartile in urban areas is taken as the representative of the urban poor.

Description: The urban poor population in Uttar Pradesh has been increasing rapidly in recent decades along with rapid urbanization. As per the 2001 Census, 3.45 crore persons were residing in towns and cities of Uttar Pradesh. It is estimated that 1.17 crore persons comprising 30.6 per cent of the urban population of the state lives below the poverty line. The urban poor rarely benefit from the facilities in urban areas and are as deprived as those in the rural areas.


The health of the slum communities is considerably worse off than the non poor in urban area and is comparable to the rural figures.

This wall chart presents health of the urban poor in Uttar Pradesh compared with other population groups based on an analysis of the Third National Family Health Survey conducted in 2005-06. A wealth index which measures the economic status of households has been developed based on 33 assets and household characteristics. The bottom quartile in urban areas is taken as the representative of the urban poor.

Description: The urban poor population in Rajasthan has been increasing rapidly in recent decades along with rapid urbanization.As per the 2001 Census, 1.32 crore persons comprising 23.4 percent of the total population were living in towns and cities of Rajasthan.It is estimated that 47.51 lakh persons comprising 32.9 per cent of the urban population of the state live below the poverty line. Urban Poverty in Rajasthan is almost double that in rural areas of the state. The urban poor rarely benefit from the facilities in urban areas and are as deprived as those in the rural areas. The health of the slum communities is considerably worse off than the non poor in urban area and is comparable to the rural figures.

This wall chart presents health of the urban poor in Rajasthan compared with other population groups based on an analysis of the Third National Family Health Survey conducted in 2005-06. A wealth index which measures the economic status of households has been developed based on 33 assets


hockey. The games invite students from both universities, where the audience watch the competition between the two institutions.

4.18 Marathon
On April 18, 1960, 3,000 Korea University students stood up against the injustice and dictatorship of the Liberal game. After reading a declaration denouncing President Syngman Rhee, Korea University students headed to the National Assembly Building and were assaulted by political hoodlums after the protest. This assault triggered anger and frustration among fellow students as well as the public which cause the historic event known as the April Revolution (4.19). To commemorate this historic event and to continue the will of the brave Korea University students of the past, every year on April 18 students run a marathon from the main gate of the school to the April 19th MemorialBJP team meets West Bengal governor, seeks his intervention to resolve crisis

The BJP demanded immediate resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from her Home and Health portfolios and sought the intervention of Governor KN Tripathi to resolve the impasse in the state's health sector which continued for the fourth day on Friday.

"The governor should talk to the chief minister immediately and exercise his power as constitutional head of the state to resolve the impasse and restore peace," senior BJP leader Mukul Roy told reporters after meeting the Tripathi at Raj Bhavan here in the evening.

Roy, who headed the BJP delegation to the governor, said the TMC has unleashed a "reign of terror" in the state, which has resulted in restlessness in all walks of life.

Roy claimed


restlessness also prevailed across the state, from Darjeeling to the Jangalmahal and from north Bengal to south Bengal.

"The chief minister should leave her ego and arrogance and resolve the stalemate immediately in the interest of the people. Please don't complicate the situation further," Roy said.right," she says, then sighs. "It was a really bad time. I'm glad it's over." Unfortunately for local fans, Hatfield's medical problems caused her to cancel a show at Hammerjacks. "We just had two more shows when we canceled," she says. "It was a warm-up tour. We're starting up again with the real American tour."

She adds that there are no plans to reschedule the Hammerjacks show. "We're just going to start fresh," she says.

Hatfield's Baltimore-area audience hasn't completely lost out, though, because she is part of the bill for this year's HFS-tival.

Now in its third year at Washington's RFK Stadium, the HFS-tival has become one of the nation's premier alterna-rock gatherings. Sponsored by the modern rock outlet WHFS-FM, it is one of the largest and most prestigious radio


station-sponsored concerts in the country. Last year's fest drew about 53,000 people -- including such luminaries as Harrison Ford -- and was covered on MTV and in the pages of Rolling Stone.

In addition to Hatfield, this year's lineup includes Soul Asylum, ex-fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt, Primus, Better Than Ezra, Bush, General Public, D.C.'s own Shudder to Think and the Ramones. Tickets sold out the day they went on sale, but WHFS listeners have had regular chances since then to win tickets.

Considering the size of the audience she'll play to at the HFS-tival, you might think the pressure would be on Hatfield to impress the crowd and boost sales for her new album. But the truth is, she'd really prefer to ignore that side of the music business.

"I'm tryingthe education resistance, are very pessimistic. Bad politics and bad faith people have spoiled the debate over education.

My husband Bernard, being a good teacher, likes to use comparisons. He has specially written for you two little stories to sum up the situation. The connection between wine and school might surprise you at first, but I think you’ll see his point when you finish the second story.

First story

French wines are known all over the world… At the end of the 19th century, a terrible blight of the grapevines ruined all the French vineyards. It was called phylloxera, and it was caused by a special insect known as the worst enemy of the grapevine. It can kill the plant within three years. The epicentre of the blight was situated in


and up a flight of stairs.  The central space has a coffered ceiling and is lit from above by clerestory windows on all four sides.  The floor is parquetry, made of jarrah and silver ash woods. Dominating the room is a larger than life bronze statue of King George V, monarch at the time the building was completed, but who, as Duke of York, also represented his father King Edward VII at the opening of the first Commonwealth Parliament on 9 May 1901 in Melbourne.

On eight of the columns surrounding the room are bronze reliefs of persons prominent in the formation of the Commonwealth. In the ambulatory are portraits of Australian Governors-General, Prime Ministers, Speakers of the House of Representatives and presidents of the Senate, andintegral part of the building.  Later this intention was lost, as extensions were added to the back part of the building to provide more offices.

They are enclosed by hedges and were planted with trees.  In both cases they were divided into four quadrants, with two being occupied by rose gardens and the remaining two by recreational facilities.  On the Senate side these are tennis courts and a cricket pitch and on the Representatives' side, they are tennis courts and a bowling/croquet green. In the 1970s much of the Representatives' gardens were covered by an extension to the building, but this has now been removed and the gardens restored.

The rose gardens contain a wide variety of specimens, including many old roses and roses donated by prominent


space problem.

The first extensions were made to the rear of the building in 1947 to provide more office space for members. Some further extensions were constructed in 1964. In the 1970s large extensions were added to both sides of the building and the south-west corner. The front façade was extended in a sympathetic fashion to conform with Murdoch's design.  On the Representatives side, larger extensions were required, and a substantial part of the gardens were built over and linked to the main building by a bridge.

The interiors of the 1972–73 extensions reflect fashions of the time, although wooden panelling was used for the walls, in keeping with the older parts of the building, but with an unequivocally 1970s style.  On the Representatives side, the extensions necessitatedthe front doors with a golden key, and led the official party into King's Hall where he unveiled the statue of his father, King George V, Emperor of India.  The Duke then opened the first parliamentary session in the new Senate Chamber.

A large memorial to King George V located immediately opposite Parliament House was unveiled in 1953. This memorial was moved to a nearby location in 1968 to allow a direct line of sight to the Australian War Memorial.

Prime Minister John Curtin, who died in office, and Ben Chifley, a former Prime Minister, both lay in state in King's Hall after their deaths in 1945 and 1951 respectively.

Last decades
On 26 January 1972 a number of Aboriginals set up tents and signs in protest about Aboriginal rights


PARRIS ISLAND, S.C.—Marine recruit Juan Tellez has no memory of the Sept. 11 hijackings that started the war he may soon be fighting.

Why would he? He was born two months after the terror attacks took place.

The Afghanistan war, now in its 18th year, has been going on for so long that some of those volunteering to fight it were still in utero...An apparently hungry thief broke into a Subway shop in D.C. overnight, jumped over the counter and made himself a sandwich.

Surveillance footage shared by D.C. police on Tuesday shows a young man in shorts and a collared shirt stride into the Subway location in the 1700 block of G Street NW, near George Washington University.

He grabs a bag of chips, hops over the counter and falls. Then, he searches around the kitchen, locates a loaf of bread and begins to make a sandwich. The sandwich-making process is edited out of the video, but police said it was a chicken sandwich worth $8.49.

The man appears to have trouble finding the door, kicks it and walks out.

He's wanted for burglary for the Aug. 2 crime, which occurred about 1:50 a.m.

Anyone


Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Perceptions

This picure was copied on line from Fox News

The huge storm that hit the eastern seaboard and is extended way beyond to the west has raised many questions regarding the coming presidential election. I specifically said presidential because that is the one election date that is carved in stone. It is federal law that November 6, 2012 will be the election day regardless of the difficulty in getting to the polls.

There are several options open to the states affected, none of which are very attractive. For instance, remember we the voters do not elect a president. The electoral college does. How is the electoral college constituted? By the states. As is customary throughout our country, Electors are elected as a slate representing a particular candidate.they have wings, not towers. They might have the north wing, the west wing, and so on. Perhaps students aren't just randomly divided, but are divided completely by year, with the first and second years in the East Wing, the third and fourth years in the West Wing and so on. I get the impression Beaxbatons is more organized than Hogwarts, (Wasn't Fleur not liking the moving staircases?) so the dormitories might correspond to each other in their location in the building. (Not like Hogwarts, with Hufflepuff by the kitchen, Ravenclaw and Gryffindor in the towers, and Slytherin in the dungeons)

For intramural sports, I don't know if they'd be as enthusiastic about Quidditch as Hogwarts. Although, they did go to the Quidditch World Cup... I would guess they


[Current status and progress in scientific rehabilitation research].
When compared to the entire field of health research, to the significance and role of rehabilitation in the health care system, to future developments in demand and to international developments, the field of rehabilitation in Germany has formerly suffered from a considerable deficit in research regarding both structure and content. The German Federal Ministry of Research and the German Statutory Pension Insurance have now established a common focus in research. This decision reflects not only a new political attitude toward the promotion of research but also represents the initiation of attempts to overcome existing research deficits permanently by means of an extensive programme for the promotion of research. In addition to the construction of a scientific infrastructure, the funders most importantlyThemyscira: William Moulton Marston. William grew up at the turn of the century and went to school when psychology was just becoming its own discipline. In fact, he was one of the first people to use blood pressure as a way to measure lying and arousal, which led eventually to the lie detector test. He was a strong feminist and supported the suffragettes in their pursuit of the vote, marrying his childhood sweetheart (who had just as many degrees as he did and was a career woman of her own) and carrying on a polyamorous relationship with a suffragette named Huntley. Eventually, they added a fourth to their unique arrangement: none other than the niece of Margaret Sanger who introduced birth control to the US and paid for


it dearly.

Marston worshipped these women and insisted mankind would be better off if it reverted to a matriarchy. His long, rambling, and mostly unsuccessful career eventually led him around to creating Wonder Woman, his paragon of the perfect woman. She was strong, and independent; she was kind and loving. Most importantly, she was more than equal to man and, in one issue, is elected to be President of the United States. Mind you, this was all happening in the early 1940’s which was a last bastion of female advances before the 50’s made the women return to their homes. Diana was a feminist and a believer in female superiority. If Marston had heard those tepid lines about love at the end of the movie, he would have laughedSpace, the sequel to Digital Divide. It came out not too long ago and immediately downloaded it for my Kindle. I jumped in and was not disappointed. Its another fast paced cyber crime thriller, only this time it touches on a cultural phenomenon close to my heart (and my day-job): Makers.

After a massive bomb rocks downtown D.C., Agent Rachel Peng is given a task force and autonomy to work outside the official investigation to ensure that nothing is missed. Her investigation brings her into contact with a community of Makers working out of a decrepit office space nee warehouse that they have turned into a Maker think tank of sorts. Makers are a newly identified kind of human, the kind who revels in constructing marvels of technology and


British photographer Rebecca Bathory has been granted rare permission to document the Fukushima exclusion zone. In the six years since the tsunami and ensuing nuclear disaster, some photographers have visited the area around Fukushima – but very few have ventured inside the most restricted red zone, or seen the interiors of its abandoned buildings, unchanged since residents fled for their lives on 11 March 2011.

IBTimes UK presents a selection of her atmospheric pictures from Return to Fukushima, the first book of photos taken inside inside the red zone.

Together with Polish photographer Arkadiusz Podniesinski, Bathory spent five days exploring the area, starting with the town of Tomioka. She says: "We had to be very vigilant as we weren't supposed to be in the buildings. We ducked into the oddone occasionally, and found a supermarket, a home and a Pachinko slot casino. I was overwhelmed each time I entered a building, knowing they were pretty much untouched since the disaster."

They also visited the towns of Namie and Futaba, finding shops littered with dusty books and DVDs that had tumbled off the shelves when the earthquake struck. She says: "I have photographed hundreds of abandoned buildings, but it is very rare to find one that hasn't been tampered with somehow by humans, whether by photographers moving objects around for photos or people vandalising them. It felt very special to be in an abandoned place where furniture and objects had been left untouched, the same as on the day it happened."

She visited two farms. One was run by a


man who had rescued cats and dogs from the danger zone. The other was a much sadder sight: a former cattle farm where all the animals had been left to die. She describes: "Pen upon pen of dead animals. Their bones littering every single one. Deeper into the pens I saw heads hanging from ropes that had originally been used to tie them to the railings."

The two photographers spent a couple of hours inside a school and then discovered a supermarket inside the red zone. She says: "It was close to the border so we snuck in amongst the tall grass and ran inside. It was pitch black and the stench of rotting food hit me immediately. As I wandered around, torch in hand, it felt like somethingI timed my visit to coincide with the blooming of the cherry blossom, Japan's Sakura. It was poignant for me to capture the exclusion zone in this time of celebration of nature, and as the symbol of spring, new life blossomed around this place of tragedy."

"I wanted to capture a moment of time, a moment from which hopefully these towns will continue to be cleaned up and rebuilt and one day residents will return to their homes and rebuild their towns, very much in the same way Hiroshima has become a thriving city again," she concludes. "I hope that these photos may be viewed in years to come in the same way that photographers captured the aftermath of Hiroshima."

Return to Fukushima is published by Carpet Bombing Culture. Rebecca


Bathory is also the author of Soviet Ghosts: The Soviet Union Abandoned. A Communist Empire in Decay, published in 2014. You can see more of her work at her website. You can also follow her on Facebook or Instagram to keep up to date with her latest photographic endeavours.psychosis inducing experiment

1998: Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill, a prize winning research expose by The Boston Globe In November, 1998, the first of a four-part series by Robert Whitaker and Dolores Kong shed light on the abusive research parameters of non-therapeutic experiments conducted . . . Continue reading →

1998: Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill, a prize winning research expose by The Boston Globe In November, 1998, the first of a four-part series by Robert Whitaker and Dolores Kong shed light on the abusive research parameters of non-therapeutic experiments conducted . . . Continue reading →


With Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Stephen Curry on their roster, the Golden State Warriors are heavily favored to win the NBA championship next season. How great the Warriors truly become is obviously still undetermined, but the expectations are quite high for Golden State.

But can the Warriors break the single-season wins record they set last season? According to the simulations of one NBA front office, not only will the Warriors surpass 73 wins, their sheer win total essentially broke the computer's simulation.

From SI's Lee Jenkins:

One NBA front office ran simulations, based on player values, for the upcoming season. Cleveland came out with 64 wins, second best in the league. Golden State came out with 83, better than undefeated. They broke the system.

The simulation likely doesn't factorArmament And History

Although skill, leadership, strategy, and number of forces have been important factors in battles, armaments have played the most decisive role in determining ultimate military victory. Entranced by the power and precision of armaments, man has continuously invented faster, more accurate, and more devastating weapons, from the javelin, stone axe, sword, and the arrow to the cannon, musket, rifle, tank, super-fortress, and missile. In this study of the influence of armaments on history, J.F.C. Fuller shows how the inventive genius of man can potentially obliterate his sense of moral values and destroy civilization. Divided into armament epochsAges of Valour, Chivalry, Gunpowder, Steam, Oil, and Atomic EnergyArmament and History examines the most influential military innovations of each period as well as the key leaders (including Alexander, Caesar,


Gustavus Adolphus, and Napoleon) who skillfully employed these weapons. Although the author acknowledges that war cannot be eliminated entirely, he urges man to impose restrictions on warfare before society descends into a second Dark Age. Completed immediately after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasakichilling examples of mass destruction caused by armamentsthis impassioned work remains relevant more than a half-century later.Barcelona have projected a wage bill of €633 million for this season, which – along with profits of just €11 million, leaves no room in the budget for a major outlay on Paul Pogba, given the likely €150 million transfer fee and major salary contract.

The Catalan club announced a summary of their financial results for the 2017-2018 year on Tuesday, eager to celebrate their revenue of €916 million which they claim to be the largest ever for a sports club. Certainly it is bigger than the Real Madrid turnover of €750 million for the corresponding period which was announced by their rivals last week although the warning signs for Barcelona were elsewhere.

The wage bill climbed to €639 million despite the club having predicted in last season’s accounts that


to sell, unless the club were prepared to part with the jewel in its crown, Lionel Messi. The Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu has long said that selling Messi is simply not up for discussion.

The Catalan giants' most expensive jewel: Lionel Messi is not for sale credit: Getty Images

The Telegraph reported last week that Pogba is unhappy at United, and asked before the start of the season to leave. Even if United were prepared to sell, they would do so at a price that was around the €150 million level at the very least. Barcelona’s latest figures make it very doubtful that they would have the funds to cover a one-off payment as well as finance the kind of contract Pogba would expect.

The Spanish Liga sets salary caps foreach club according to their revenue and Barcelona are at the maximum of their current cap.

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The club’s €916 million revenue was achieved by the Neymar fee, the single biggest for a player in the history of the game and paid as a lump sum by PSG under the terms of his buyout clause. It is that which has kept Barcelona in profit this year with the combined cost of Philippe Coutinho who arrived in January, and Ousmane Dembele, who arrived the previous summer, having been spread over the course of their respective five-year contracts.

Barcelona acknowledged this in their remarks accompanying those accounts saying that they could better their revenue next year through “improved commercial and sponsorship revenue, media rights, stadium revenues and transfers of players”. The club


he has long found value in doing things that generate what he calls “constructive controversy—with the purpose of enlightenment.”

This is what makes Miller different from all the other Republican apparatchiks who became supervillains when they joined the Trump administration: He has been courting infamy since puberty. From Santa Monica High School to Duke University to Capitol Hill, his mission—always—has been to shock and offend the progressive sensibilities of his peers. He revels in riling them, luxuriates in their disdain.

Inside the White House, Miller has emerged as a staunch ideologue and an immigration hawk championing an agenda of right-wing nationalism. But people who have known him at different points in his life say his political worldview is also rooted in a deep-seated instinct for trolling. Miller represents a risingdrive.

He was in seventh grade, and, needing one more sale to qualify for a prize, he decided to buy himself a subscription to Guns & Ammo, which looked less boring than the alternatives. While flipping through the magazine one day, he came across a column written by Charlton Heston, the movie star turned gun-rights activist. It was, he recalled, “the first conservative writing I’d ever read.”

Growing up in the so-called People’s Republic of Santa Monica as the son of well-off Jewish Democrats—his father was a lawyer and real-estate investor, his mother a homemaker—Miller was uninitiated in conservative thought. But the magazine piqued his curiosity. Guns & Ammo led him to Wayne LaPierre’s book Guns, Crime, and Freedom, which he devoured, enraptured by the blunt force of the author’s


to anybody anymore.”

Miller jumped into the homestretch of a girls’ track race, evidently to prove male athletic superiority.

But Miller’s youthful political reinvention was also a puckish reaction to his surroundings. In the beachside bubble of liberal affluence where he was raised, people saw themselves as proud citizens of a progressive utopia. There were festivals celebrating multiculturalism, and “racial-harmony retreats” for students. Yet there were also tensions around racial and class inequality. Jason Islas, a progressive activist who was friends with Miller when they were kids, says it was the kind of place where wealthy white liberals would “conspicuously celebrate diversity in very self-congratulatory ways”—and then avert their eyes from the problems in their own community.

Miller seemed to mold his new political identity with the express aim of needlingwriting op-eds that compared students who opposed U.S. military actions to terrorists and concluding, “Osama Bin Laden would feel very welcome at Santa Monica High School.” During his junior year, he agitated for the school to lead regular recitals of the Pledge of Allegiance—and when his demand wasn’t met, he went on local talk radio to kick up some controversy. The tactic worked, and the school eventually acquiesced.

At times, his shtick was greeted with amusement. In a video clip unearthed by Vice News, a young Miller—wearing a white tennis sweater and oozing bravado—can be seen eliciting laughter from other teenage boys in the back of a school bus as he cracks jokes about his receding hairline, performs a silly pop ballad, and holds forth on the merits of


teenager. Horowitz had recently published a new book identifying “the 101 most dangerous academics in America,” including two Duke professors—and Miller had invited him to campus. Now, as he introduced Horowitz to an audience of skeptics and hecklers, Miller was making the most of the moment.

Turning to the piece of paper in front of him, Miller began to list the university entities that had withheld their support, reading them off one by one with gusto—the literature department, the philosophy department, the multicultural center. When some in the audience began applauding the groups he was trying to shame, Miller straightened his tie and furrowed his brow in faux concern. “I see that many of you are happy that people on this campus don’t want to support a debate ofand advice for drumming up publicity (“Appearing as a guest on your local talk radio station is probably easier than you think”). The handbook also urged students to invite controversial speakers to their schools, adding that if the administration declined to fund such visits, students should “issue a press release … questioning why they have refused your request to increase the scope of intellectual diversity on campus.”

The playbook was in many ways ahead of its time, but Miller recognized its merits—and executed flawlessly. After inviting Horowitz to speak at Duke, he seized on the pushback from some professors as evidence that the university was trying to stifle free speech. He wrote an incendiary op-ed in the student newspaper, The Chronicle, titled “Betrayal,” in which he claimed that “a


in his dark suits and ties, a Nat Sherman cigarette dangling from his lips, he epitomized a new breed of college Republican—less debate-team dork, more smirking prankster. In classes, he was known to derail discussions with inflammatory comments. When other students confronted him on the quad, he would expertly bait them into public shouting matches.

One semester, he coordinated an “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” to educate students about the “holy war being waged against us.” And through an event called the Great Immigration Debate, he got to know a graduate student named Richard Spencer, who would go on to become one of America’s leading white supremacists. (The extent of their relationship is somewhat murky. When Spencer claimed last year that he had been a “mentor” to Miller, the White Houseaide issued a forceful denial, telling TheWashington Post, “I condemn his views. I have no relationship with him. He was not my friend.”)

Miller was best known for a column he wrote, called Miller Time, for The Chronicle. Perusing the archive today, one can see the influence of Limbaugh, LaPierre, and his other idols. In one column—headlined “Sorry Feminists”—he made the case for old-fashioned gender roles: “I simply wouldn’t feel comfortable hiring a full-time male babysitter or driving down the street and seeing a group of women carrying heavy steel pillars to a construction site.” He produced tirades against affirmative action, multiculturalism, and various other talk-radio targets. His Judaism notwithstanding, he wrote two separatecolumns about the War on Christmas, and a third in which he lamented that Mel Gibson


Miller, it was an opportunity. From his perch at TheChronicle, he took up the unpopular cause of the accused lacrosse players—crusading for their right to be presumed innocent, and casting them as victims of political correctness. He caught the attention of cable-news bookers and became a frequent guest on Fox News, playing the head-nodding yes-man to Bill O’Reilly’s cranky culture warrior. But he also turned up on shows that were less friendly to his position. During one particularly feisty interview with Nancy Grace, the host was so appalled by Miller that she was reduced to rolling her eyes and exclaiming, “Oh, good lord!”

To many, Miller’s position seemed not only wrongheaded but outrageous—but then the case unraveled. By the time Miller graduated, the lacrosse players had been exonerated, andthe Durham County district attorney was later disbarred. Miller was vindicated.

Miller told me that his activism on behalf of the players was the thing he was most proud of from his college years. It also helped launch his career in conservative politics. After graduating, he moved to Washington to join the office of an up-and-coming congresswoman named Michele Bachmann.

But among those who knew Miller at the time, the question of why he inserted himself into the lacrosse scandal remains a point of debate. Some believe it was simple opportunism—an attention seeker chasing the Fox News searchlight. Others see a more nefarious motive—a budding white nationalist drawn to the racial politics of the case.

Miller himself told me that he’d felt moved to take a stand because of his upbringing


in Santa Monica. In the campus-wide rush to judge the lacrosse players—whose gender and ostensible privilege were cited as exhibits A and B—he said he recognized “some of the more totalitarian tendencies in parts of the new left that I’d seen growing up.” And, he added, “my experiences in high school, in which I was used to being unfairly labeled, unfairly maligned, gave me the thick skin that I needed” to withstand the blowback.

Paul Slattery offered a simpler theory. He said that while his old friend had been motivated by a genuine belief in the players’ rights, he was also following a deeper impulse: “He just loved to kick shit up.”

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his past February, thousands of right-wing activists descended on National Harbor, in Maryland, for the annual Conservative Politicalcollege campuses. Yiannopoulos’s tirades against Muslims, lesbians, and other minority groups were designed to draw protests—and if the demonstrations turned violent, all the better. After a riot broke out last year at UC Berkeley, where Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak, conservatives pointed to the incident as proof that free speech was under attack from the left.

“Liberal tears” are the coin of the realm, and giving offense is a form of conquest.

Despite their shoestring appearance, many of these exploits have real money behind them. Yiannopoulos’s tour was funded in part by Robert Mercer, the secretive hedge-fund billionaire who also was a major Trump donor in 2016. And Turning Point USA—a nonprofit that trains conservative students in the art of provocation—reportedly has a budget of about $15 million this year.

In