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Please note: For hygienic reasons, we sadly cannot allow animals and petsSummary:Carrie White is a shy outcast at high school and has been sheltered by her deeply religious mother. When Carrie is pushed too far at her senior prom, she unleashes telekinetic terror on the entire town.


Composition

The song's lyrics question the singer's purpose in life.

Recording

The song's first recording session was on 3 October 1967 along with "With the Sun in My Eyes" and "Words". The song's last recording session was on 28 October 1967. "World" was originally planned as having no orchestra, so all four tracks were filled with the band, including some mellotron or organ played by Robin. When it was decided to add an orchestra, the four tracks containing the band were mixed to one track and the orchestra was added to the other track. The stereo mix suffered since the second tape had to play as mono until the end when the orchestra comes in on one side. Barry adds: "'World' is one of those things we came up with inJeremy D. Morley concentrates on International Family Law. The firm works with clients around the world from its New York office, with a global network of local counsel.
Mr Morley is the author of "International Family Law Practice", the leading treatise on international family law in the U.S., and "The Hague Abduction Convention", published by the American Bar Association. He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers and a former law professor.

Friday, June 29, 2007

How can one parent stop the other parent from taking a child to visit a dangerous country?

How can a parent make sure that a child will be returned if the other parent takes the child to visit his or her native country?

Many international parents are justifiably becoming increasingly concerned about the answers


to these questions.

I have just written an article - published in the July 2007 issue of The Matrimonial Strategist and now also available on my website - describing "Ten Key Tips for Parents" that I have developed as a result of handling these issues for parents around the world.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

The Supreme Court of New Jersey has unanimously upheld a decision allowing a Japanese mother to relocate with her six-year old child from their home in New Jersey to Okinawa, Japan over the strong objections of the American husband. The primary concern of the husband was that the provisions for his visitation with his daughter were unenforceable in Japan. MacKinnon v. MacKinnon,Supreme Court of New Jersey, June 11, 2007.

The ruling should be understood strictly in the contextthe Hague Child Abduction Convention.

Judge Belinda van Heerden expressed great concern at the “dismal failure” of South Africa’s courts and its chief family advocate to act expeditiously and to secure the child’s prompt return, stating that proceedings "in the present case were anything but expeditious. Some three and a half years have elapsed from the time of the boy's wrongful retention in SA in December 2003. The boy has spent most of his young life in this country.”

Judge van Heerden also stated that, "The training of South African judicial officers in the principles and procedures underpinning the convention also appears to be less than that required by SA's obligations under the convention. It is to be hoped that these shortcomings will receive the prompt and proper attention of


the relevant authorities."

Friday, June 01, 2007

The American Bar Association’s Section of International Law will hold its “Fall Meeting” at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London, England from October 3 – 6, 2007.

A session entitled “International Family Law for the Globetrotting Executive” will be held on Thursday, October 4, 2007 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm chaired by Jeremy D. Morley, attorney-at-law in New York City, with presentations from him, Anne-Marie Hutchinson, OBE (Dawson Cornwell, London) and Suzanne Kingston (Dawsons, London).

Description: Complex international family law issues are an occupational hazard for globetrotting executives. International travel is great for business and pleasure but terrible for marital stability. A globetrotter’s legal adviser is expected to have hard data and brilliant strategic advice at the ready but in the real world accurate informationand useful “big picture” advice is hard to find. In this fast-moving program, some of the world’s leading experts on international family law will provide practical, useful and straightforward advice concerning:

·International prenuptial agreements;

·Strategic international divorce planning;

·International divorce jurisdiction;

·Which law governs the international divorce?

·International child custody and international child abduction.

·An international family lawyer’s “Top Tips for the Globetrotting Executive.”

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Jeremy D. Morley was admitted to the New York Bar in 1975 and concentrates on international family law. His firm works with clients around the world from New York , with a global network of local counsel. Mr. Morley is the author of "International Family Law Practice," the leading treatise on international family law in the United States. He is also the author of “The Hague Abduction Convention: Practical issues


and Procedures for Family Lawyers.” He is the former co-chair of the International Family Law Committee of the International Law Section of the ABA. He is a member of the International Academy of Family Lawyers. He was born in Manchester, England and has taught in law schools in the United States, Canada and England. Mr. Morley frequently lectures on international family law topics to the judiciary, bar associations and others. Mr. Morley is frequently asked to appear as an expert witness on international child abduction prevention and recovery issues. Mr. Morley has been a frequent guest on television and radio shows on the topic of international child abduction and international divorce law and has been featured in the print media on numerous occasions.appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Adams, J.), entered September 24, 2014, which denied its motion pursuant to CPLR 2001 to amend the notice of pendency, judgment of foreclosure and sale, and all other documents in the action, nunc pro tunc, to correct the legal description of the foreclosed property.
ORDERED that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the motion pursuant to CPLR 2001 is granted.
After a judgment of foreclosure and sale was entered on March 14, 2011, and the foreclosure sale held on June 7, 2011, the plaintiff moved pursuant to CPLR 2001 to correct the notice of pendency filed on March 7, 2008, the judgment of foreclosure and sale, and all other documents in the foreclosure action, nunc pro


Ralph Monday is Associate Professor of English at
Roane State Community College in Harriman, TN., and has published
hundreds of poems in over 50 journals. A chapbook, All American Girl and Other Poems, was published in July 2014. A book Empty Houses and American Renditions was published May 2015 by Aldrich Press. A Kindle chapbook Narcissus the Sorcerer was published June 2015 by Odin Hill Press.

The Main Event opening video kicks off the show after the usual WWE signature. Curt Hawkins and Heath Slater (with Rhyno) make their entrances as Vic Joseph and Nigel McGuinness check in on commentary.

Curt Hawkins vs. Heath Slater

They lock up. Slater locks in a headlock, Hawkins sends him to the ropes. Slater hits a Shoulder Block on Hawkins. Slater connects with a forearm to Hawkins. Hawkins rolls out of the ring. Rhyno exchanges words with Hawkins. Hawkins pushes Rhyno. Rhyno teases punching Hawkins. Slater connects with a baseball slide to Hawkins. Slater rolls Hawkins back into the ring. Hawkins drives his shoulder into Slater as he gets up on to the ring apron. Hawkins spikes Slater's shoulder on the top rope. Hawkins locks in a headlock on Slater.


Slater fights out of it. Hawkins clotheslines Slater. Hawkins pins Slater for a two count. Hawkins punches Slater several times on the mat. Hawkins briefly locks in a face-lock on Slater. Slater hits a Back Suplex on Hawkins. Slater hits a Neck-Breaker on Hawkins. Slater pins Hawkins for a two count. Hawkins pushes Slater to the ropes. Hawkins hits a Modified Driver on Slater. Hawkins pins Slater for a two count. Hawkins ascends the turnbuckles. Slater strikes Hawkins. Slater attempts a Superplex, Hawkins pushes him off the turnbuckle. Hawkins hits an Elbow Drop from off the top rope on Slater. Hawkins pins Slater for a two count. Slater rolls Hawkins up for the three count.

Winner: Heath Slater

A recap from RAW is shown featuring John Cena defeating Intercontinental ChampionThe Miz, forcing The Miz to enter the Elimination Chamber first as a result.

A recap from SmackDown Live is shown featuring Baron Corbin defeating Kevin Owens, with Corbin being added to the WWE Championship Match at Fastlane as a result.

A recap from SmackDown Live is shown featuring Dolph Ziggler on SmackDown Live, with Ziggler being added to the WWE Championship Match at Fastlane as a result.

Cedric Alexander and Ariya Daivari make their entrances.

Cedric Alexander vs. Ariya Daivari

Daivari locks in a headlock, Alexander sends him to the ropes. Daivari hits a Shoulder Block on Alexander. Alexander dropkicks Daivari. Alexander hits an arm-drag on Daivari. Alexander locks in an armlock on Daivari. Daiavari backs Alexander into the corner. Alexander attempts a springboard to the top rope, Daivari pushes him to


Aire-Wharfe League: Lawrence shines with five-wicket haul as Follifoot close on survival

Damian Lawrence took 6-35 as Follifoot beat Rawdon by one run to raise hopes they will escape relegation.

A 79-point deduction for fielding an ineligible player sent Follifoot to the bottom earlier in the season but they have clawed their way back and are only one point behind Ilkley, the side just in the safety zone.

Victory looked unlikely when Follifoot slumped from 120-6 to 130 all out but Lawrence kept Rawdon on the back foot.

The final pair of Stuart Ward and Harry Nicholson edged towards the target, putting on 11 before Alex Fox trapped Ward lbw.

With every point between now and the end of the season vital to survival hopes, Follifoot’s Nick Robinson was impressed with the win.

HeT workers:

Transit Police report arresting a Medford man they say threatened to kill T workers who caught him trying to evade his fare at Harvard Square and then punched a T cop before he was brought under control yesterday afternoon. Police say that Xavier Galatis, 23, of Medford, failed to use the “great problem solving and communication skills” he lists on his LinkedIn page when he was spotted fare jumping around 2:20 p.m.

He became violent and threatened the employee with death. Officers approached Galatis and were greeted by the same belligerent behavior and threats. Officers requested Galatis cease his tumultuous behavior and leave the station. Galatis refused and continued to shout threats at the officers and racial epithets at MBTA employees. Officers attempted to place Galatis into custody


sent to Mars for colonization.

A tool-set that is designed to mimic evolution by allowing the creation of life from 20 ingredients already on Mars. The simplified explanation of 3-D printing of amino acids had the crowd pleased.

"The Martian" lovefest in Hollywood was to a standing-room only crowd of space geeks, NASA and JPL Scientists, and an astronaut to hear Ridley Scott, the director, Andy Weir, the author, and Drew Goddard, the screen writer on three panels of getting there, living there and colonizing. The panel members all seemed to be scientists typecast players, but in actuality they were some of the most advanced minds in our country.

With Adam Savage of Mythbusters as the MC and Bill Nye leading a panel, a real mix of Woody Allen sarcasm banterPope to make major speech in Italy's little China

Pope Francis will Tuesday deliver a major speech on the theme of work in the symbolic location of Prato, a small town near Florence that has become synonymous with Chinese immigration to Italy.

Francis, who has made the rights of workers and migrants dominant themes of his papacy, will pronounce his views from the cathedral square in a town where ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs have become the major players in a textile industry that has long been key to the local economy.

Prato officially has 16,000 Chinese nationals out of a population of 191,000. But locals say the real figure could be as high as 50,000 if the true number of clandestine workers is taken into account.

The town became a symbol for both


uncontrolled immigration and unchecked labour exploitation in December 2013, when seven Chinese workers burned to death in a fire in an unregulated workshop where they slept after 16-hour shifts.

Two years later, walking around Prato's Chinese quarter, it is still easy to encounter many Chinese workers with little, if any, knowledge of Italian.

But with the Chinese community in Italy -- the third largest in Europe after France and Britain -- now producing third and fourth generation offspring, old cliches about sweatshops and exploitation don't necessarily portray the full picture.

Italy's Chinese textile entrepreneurs have thrived by lowering the cost base of an industry that has been destroyed by Asian competition in many other European countries.

The model of minimising labour and raw material costs through links with China has proved particularlyBy Karam Nachar

There was a time, not too long ago, when a young woman headed one of the largest networks of Syrian activists working against the Assad regime. She had blue eyes and uncovered blond hair; she spoke English and held a degree in law; and she was a staunch secularist. But Razan Zaitouneh was utterly uninterested in showcasing any of these ‘qualities’, or in becoming an international icon. She believed in the universality of freedom and human rights, but it was only through very local battles that she thought such values could acquire life and meaning.

It was in 2005 that I first heard of Razan. She had taken part in a small demonstration in Damascus, and soon thereafter stories circulated of her exceptional bravery. Razan Zaitouneh had


raised chants against the Assad family when, for most Syrians, the mere mention of the president or his father was reason enough to shudder with fear. She had spoken the radical truth when older activists and most international observers were content with their vague demands for ‘reform’ or ‘gradual change’ in Syria.

And so when the Syrian countryside rose up in rebellion in 2011, Razan did not hesitate to join the struggle. With her husband Wael Hamadeh and many old and new friends, she had soon built a formidable constellation of ‘Local Coordination Committees’, which covered around fifty different locations in the country. The LCCs organized and documented demonstrations on film; they tracked the rising numbers of the dead, the wounded, and the missing; and they started to provideand coordinate humanitarian assistance to the displaced families. They also elected a political committee that debated all matters related to the Syrian uprising, and offered a detailed vision for a truly democratic and pluralistic post-Assad Syria.

It was all the stuff of true revolutions, and for those of us who took part or helped from outside, the experience was often truly euphoric. But by the time the uprising had entered its second year, the inclinations of the mostly secular and pacifist members of the LCCs seemed at odds with the grand political realities and ideological forces that were now at work in their country. The savage repression of the Assad regime had made it impossible for the people to continue with their non-violent protests. They started to carry arms,


also believed, much like their friend the renowned writer Yassin al-Haj Saleh, that their task as secularists was not to preach ‘enlightenment’ from a safe distance, but to join the more ordinary and devout folk in their struggle for a life lived with dignity. Only then could liberal secularism earn its ‘place’ in Syrian society and truly challenge its primordialist detractors.

It was these beliefs that set Razan Zaitouneh on her last journey in late April 2013. After two years of living underground in Damascus, she followed the example of Yassin al-Haj Saleh and moved to the liberated town of Douma. There, among a starving population that was constantly under shelling by the regime forces, Razan launched a project for women empowerment and a community development center, all whilecontinuing her work in documenting and assisting the victims of the war. By August, al-Haj Saleh had already left for the north, but his wife Samira al-Khalil, Razan and her husband, and their friend, the poet and activist Nazem Hammadi were all settled in Douma, sharing two apartments in the same building. In the middle of the night of December 9, they were abducted from their new homes by a group of armed men that were later linked to Al-Nusra front and the Army of Islam. To this day, their fate and whereabouts remain unknown.

Razan Zaitouneh did not cover her hair in Douma, nor did Samira al-Khalil. They did not ‘go native’ in the conservative town, because they believed that to be a native of Syria should not


require conforming to any one cultural or political mold. This alone seems to have terrified the new Islamo-fascist forces in the area in the same way mass protests had terrified the Assad regime. But beyond these local actors, the presence of people like Razan Zaitouneh also disturbed the narrative that the world had found most convenient to adopt about Syria, in which true democrats were seen as weak or entirely absent in what was now only a sectarian civil war. If this statement has a ring of truth now, it is only because for two years the true democrats have been left to fight a brutal dictatorship, Al-Qaeda extremists, and corrupt warlords all by themselves. Already in December 2011, when Amy Goodman asked her what she expected fromBrother Xavier is pragmatic about the declining community of monks at Orval Abbey in a leafy corner of southern Belgium. “Monastic life is not a question of numbers,” he muses during a brief break in his daily routine of prayer, work and meditation. Besides, he says, while fewer European men are finding their vocation, Orval is now welcoming monks from as far away as Rwanda and Mexico.

Beer aficionados will be breathing a sigh of relief. For Orval not only serves as a place of quiet contemplation and worship: it is also one of a handful of monasteries in the world producing beer granted the hallowed label of Authentic Trappist Product. This means the ale is made behind abbey walls under the supervision of monks from the Trappist branch


of the Cistercian order. When an erroneous report that Orval might lose its Trappist status because of the dwindling number of monks spread across beer blogs last year, the product started flying off the shelves.

In fact this year marks an unprecedented expansion of the centuries-old tradition of Trappist beer. For the first time, a monastery in the United States has been granted permission to start its own brewing operations.

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“There are 160 houses of the order in the world,” says François de Harenne, Orval’s commercial director, who is also the spokesman for the Belgium-based International Trappist Association. “Each of them must earn money for their own needs, and the activities of the Belgian breweries are thebefore being reinvested in the brewery. The result is a small building tucked in a corner of the grounds and crammed with the most modern brewing equipment available.

However, global attention has been a mixed blessing. Since the Westvleteren ale produced by Saint Sixtus abbey in northern Belgium was named best beer in the world in 2012, the monks appear exasperated by the customers queuing up at the gates, and have refused to increase production beyond 4,750 hectolitres a year. At the other end of the spectrum, the Trappist Chimay brewery is increasing exports and does advertise, but has special dispensation as it is in an area with high unemployment and expansion meets a social need of the community.

When Orval’s production peaked at 70,000 hectolitres in 2012 – up


is also helping to keep the unique tradition alive. In 1997, Trappist status was bestowed on the Koningshoeven brewery in The Netherlands, and the last two years have seen a second monastery in The Netherlands, one in Austria, and St Joseph’s of Spencer, Massachusetts, all being allowed to call their brews Trappist ale.

The US beer blogger Charles D Cook, who runs www.drinkbelgianbeer.com, believes the expansion demonstrates the Trappist label can survive. “The Trappists have monasteries all over the world and Spencer has over 65 monks,” he says. “So if the Trappists want to they can definitely have some monks move around here and there as they have done for hundreds of years.”

Silence is golden: Life inside the order

At the last official count of members within the Order ofCistercians of the Strict Observance, or Trappists, released at the end of 2013, there were around 2,000 monks and 1,700 nuns, who are sometimes referred as Trappistines.

Despite it being one of the things that the order are seemingly best known for, the members have never actually been asked to take a vow of silence. However, in following the Rule of St Benedict, an atmosphere of silence is a promise the monks and nuns take when pledging ‘conversion’, or fidelity to monastic life, after around five or six years in the monastery. For the order, silence is important in contributing to continual prayer.

The main reasons for speaking in the monasteries is functional use in helping to complete work, spiritual exchanges with superiors, or group prayer. Many monasteries have libraries


else. Taylor's claim to fame during his one season at cornerback for Louisiana-Lafayette was that he knocked four people out of games, two via concussive effect and two via sprains. My attempt to check if Taylor sprained the knee of Middle Tennessee receiver Tyrone Calico by using (whoooo!) the figure-four leglock proved inconclusive. Check the video? Yeah, like that game was on TV anywhere. Taylor was a tailback at Louisiana-Lafayette in 2001, making the team as a walk-on. Taylor's draft profile on NFL.com says he did not play in 2000 because he "concentrated on academics." Before that, he was a Prop 48. Before that, he was dumb. Probably still is. Probably not dumb enough to pick himself in the fourth round, though. This pick makes no sense. Ona scale of one to 10, Ourlads Scouting Service gave Taylor a one. They projected him to be drafted when hell froze over. But Taylor is a Steeler. I guarantee he will make the team. Taylor could lose a leg at rookie camp, have a lobotomy at minicamp and develop a heroin habit at training camp, and he would make the Steelers. When a team makes a bad draft choice, cutting him right away fairly screams the club's stupidity in all-too-short order. At 6-foot, 197 pounds with 4.33 speed in the 40-yard dash, Taylor could turn out to be the latter-day Mel Blount. Or the black Scott Shields. I'm betting on the latter. Said Steelers defensive backs coach Willy Robinson -- yes, someone actually admits to having that


top 432 million units in 2008, according to a September 2005 Yole report. A similar growth rate in the speaker sector is expected to propel the MEMS microspeaker market.

Knowles Acoustics in Itasca, Ill., which shipped its first MEMS microphone in 2003, has emerged as the top provider of MEMS acoustic components, and recently announced shipment of its 300 millionth SiSonic surface mount MEMS microphone, according to Jeff Niew, Knowles vice president and general manager.

Established applications like inkjet heads won’t grow as fast as some of the new applications for MEMS in consumer electronics. Source: Yole Développement

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The company expects to have shipped its 500 millionth microphone by the middle of 2007 with continuous rapid growth in this market over the coming years, thanks in largeDanny Dill jokes people taking part in Windsor's annual pumpkin regatta this year may have to shed a few pounds before fitting into one of his giant pumpkins.

Dill usually supplies several dozen pumpkins for the annual regatta's races and is already taking bookings for the fall, but he says his giant pumpkins are only half the size they should be.

'Depressing, discouraging'

A pumpkin needs to be about 180 to 225 kilograms for a person to be able to sit inside it and row, Dill says. The ones he's seeing on his farm are more in the range of 90 kilograms, with just a month left in the growing season. He blames the weather.

"It's been the driest I've seen in my lifetime," he said. "It's getting very depressing, discouraging."

'No point


of return'

Danny Dill says with a lot of watering on his part, he expects to have about 100 giant pumpkins reach up to 227 kilograms in time for the annual Windsor Pumpkin Regatta. (Diana Dill-MacDonald)

Dill's family is famous for growing giant pumpkins on their farm. His father, Howard Dill, is a pioneer of giant pumpkin growing with four Guinness World Records. He also developed the internationally recognized Atlantic giant pumpkin seed.

Dill, who runs his father's farm now, says he has about 100 Atlantic giant pumpkins growing that he's trying to keep irrigated. He has sprinklers going, but says that's not the same as a good rain. His biggest concern is that his giant pumpkins could hit a permanent wilting point if wet weather doesn't come soon.

"If they reachlives in Steam Mill, grew the longest long gourd ever in Atlantic Canada — measuring 149.25 inches (3.79 metres), just less than an inch shy of being world-record size.

Unlike Dill, who has a large number of pumpkin crops to keep watered, Muis grows just a few giant vegetables in garden space that can be easily watered with a lawn sprinkler.

'A bit ironic'

Dill usually supplies several dozen pumpkins for Windsor's Pumpkin Regatta races. (Stephanie vanKampen/CBC)

On top of his long gourd growing, this year he's growing a pumpkin that's already reached 272 kilograms. He's hoping it will get up to 454 kilograms by the end of season.

Muis says he expects other hobbyists to show up with up to 680-kg pumpkins at the Annapolis Valley Giant Vegetable Growers Association annual weigh


a clear three strikes policy and we terminate channels when they receive three strikes in three months.”

YouTube hit Infowars with a strike in February for a video promoting conspiracy theories about the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla.

Because Infowars has not received any strikes within the past three months, its count is back down to one strike. Even with a single strike though, YouTube’s rules bar Infowars from broadcasting live YouTube videos for 90 days.

Infowars stirred controversy earlier this week with a video in which Jones threatened special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE, accusing him ofharm led organizations and large numbers of people to push for alcohol prohibition in the early 20th century.

But prohibition has its problems, too. Alcohol prohibition in North America led to a dramatic reduction in rates of drinking, but only for a short time. Alcohol use began to climb as cartels established illegal markets and as people started to produce their own. Prohibition also had many other unintended consequences -- the rise of organized crime, deaths from consuming toxic alcohol substitutes such as methanol, mass imprisonment, and high court and policing costs. We see similar consequences with the prohibition of cannabis and other drugs in Canada today.

Alcohol is therefore a risk that our society has decided to embrace. For many of us, alcohol is part of our lives, part


should stop the double standard and apply the same rules around advertising alcohol as we apply to tobacco -- a similarly harmful legal substance.

If we followed the same standard, the government would ban all advertising including print, television, radio and Internet ads (with the exception of ads in publications mailed to adults and ads on signs in adult-only places). As well, the government would not allow alcohol producers to get publicity from sponsoring sports and cultural events.

We made these changes with tobacco and saw many positive health effects. Canada now has one of the lowest rates of smoking among young people in the developed world. Banning alcohol advertising could have a similar impact.

Sheryl Spithoff is an addiction medicine and family physician at Women's College Hospital and the UniversityFilter News

Amgen Employees Evacuated From Thousand Oaks Facility

Published: Dec 06, 2017
By Mark Terry

The four wildfires in Southern California are affecting tens of thousands of people. The first of the four fires, called the Thomas Fire that began north of Santa Paula, Calif., has burned at least 50,000 acres and destroyed hundreds of buildings. For that fire alone, about 27,000 people have been evacuated.

Another, smaller fire, called the Runner Fire, resulted in several Ventura County-based companies, including Amgen, to evacuate as well. The Runner Fire burned through a canyon near Rancho Conejo Boulevard and Conejo Spectrum Street in Newbury Park.

The Ventura County Fire Department’s initial response included two helicopters, two fixed-wing planes, two hand crews and eight fire engines. Crews cut brush to create a defensible perimeter around the


fire and helicopter water drops worked to keep the fire from spreading.

Ventura County Fire Department Chief Ted Smith told the Thousand Oaks Acorn, “With these heavy winds, there was the potential of it spreading to Hill Canyon.”

He referred to a deep, undeveloped canyon that runs through both the Conejo Canyons Open Space and Arroyo Conejo Nature Preserve. Trails from them connect to Wildwood Regional Park, the Rancho Conejo Playfields and the Santa Rosa Valley.

Other businesses in the area, including Sage Publishing and Maxon, evacuated their staffers. However, according to the Acorn, not all Amgen staffers were evacuated. Research-and-development laboratory personnel were asked to stay.

Other fires were in Los Angeles County, which burned more than 11,000 acres and 30-plus structures, one in San Bernardino County, which burned 100 acresBritish Regional Heart Study is an ongoing prospective, population-based, cohort study originally including 7735 men who were recruited from primary care centers in 24 British towns in 1978--1980 and followed up repeatedly ([@R25]). In 1999/2000, men were invited to a rescreen and completed a questionnaire including lifestyle and medical history. Starting in 2010, survivors were invited to participate in a study of objectively measured PA annually on three occasions; 3127 were invited on at least two occasions. One follow-up was part of a clinic visit, and the other two were postal surveys (for approximately half the sample, the clinic visit was the first time point the accelerometer was offered, and for the other half, it was the second time point). All relevant local research ethics committees provided ethical


New Delhi: The Delhi Government Employees Joint Forum on Monday alleged that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia were part of a conspiracy that led to an alleged attack on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash by two AAP MLAs.

Pooja Joshi, one of the members of the forum, said, "The Chief Minister and Deputy CM are in denial. This shows they are part of the conspiracy."

"We request the LG and Commissioner of Police to take action as per law against CM and DyCM," she added.

Joshi also said that they would continue to not meet the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister and MLAs for meetings or talk over the phone and will keep contact through notes and file notings only.

On Tuesday, the Chief Secretary alleged that hewas beaten up by AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan and another AAP MLA in the presence of Arvind Kejriwal at the CM's residence here on February 19 night, where he had been called for a meeting.

Meanwhile, Delhi government is planning to live stream all official meetings, an official said on Monday.

The official told IANS that the government was planning to make available live feed of meetings on a website, which can be viewed by everyone.

"People will know who spoke what in the meeting, be it the elected representative or officials," the official said. If the plan is approved, the upcoming budget will have allocation for its implementation.


They combined to win 204 games during the regular season, when each lineup raced past the former home run record and slugged their way to division crowns.

So when the ALDS opens with Game 1 on Friday night at Yankee Stadium between the Twins and Yankees, what will be the difference between advancing to the ALCS or going home?

Based on the amount of home runs — Minnesota hit 307 to the Yankees’ 306 — and what transpired at Target Field, where the Yankees took two of three in late July as the teams combined for 57 runs, many are predicting a home-run orgy and base runners looking like marbles unleashed in a bath tub.

According to a talent evaluator with knowledge of each team, misplaced pitches to the muscle-bound lineupsFresh allegations have surfaced blaming China of leveraging American social media platform used to forge professional ties to hire spies.

According to a New York Times report, Chinese spies are using LinkedIn to recruit fellow spies, since it is the only major American social media platform that’s not banned in the country.

The report states that the fact that millions of job aspirants gather at this platform makes it the perfect place for espionage recruiters to go hunting. The usual targets of such spy agencies are either academics or people residing outside China who have recently quit their government jobs.

NYT interviewed several former diplomats and intelligence experts to corroborate their allegations. In the course of it, it was deduced that most of these Chinese spies were hiring people by putting


City midfielder Yaya Toure has refused to rule out a possible switch to Serie A in the near future.
The 34-year-old is out of contract at the Etihad next summer and is expected to move on, bringing an end to a seven-year stay at the Premier League leaders.
Toure has been linked on several occasions with Serie A clubs in the past and hasn't ruled out the possibility of a move to Italy before the end of his playing career.
Speaking to Gazzetta dello Sport, Toure said: "In the past there have been several contacts with Italian football, but then I have followed different and important paths like those of Barcelona and Manchester City.
"But never say never in life."

Yaya Toure's Manchester City contract expires at the end of the season

Manchester Cityconfident Stefan de Vrij will extend stay amid Liverpool transfer links Stefan de Vrij
Lazio sporting director Igli Tare is confident Liverpool target Stefan de Vrij will sign a new deal.
The defender's current contract with the Italian club expires at the end of the season, meaning he can leave for free in the summer.
Liverpool are interested in signing the Dutchman, as are Italian champions Juventus.
But, ahead of meeting today in Rome with De Vrij's agent, Tare is hopeful a deal can be struck to keep Lazio's star defender.
"The next few hours will be decisive, but we're in a good place and there will be positive news soon," Tare told Sky Sport Italia.
"Obviously, for as long as there's nothing in black or white, nothing's certain, but there will be good


colored, 30-centimeter birds? No one knows for sure. The population experienced its first crash in the 1990s after several cyclones struck Samoa and flattened more than 70 percent of the nation's forests. Beyond that catastrophe, many other factors appear to also be at play. Rebecca Stirnemann, a PhD student at Massey University in New Zealand who has spent the past several years studying the birds of Samoa, told Radio Australia that invasive rats and cats have taken a toll on the slow-breeding, ground-dwelling species. Manumeas may have also been the victims of agricultural development and hunting.

But it's hard to be sure of the true reasons for the declines because the birds have never been fully studied. Not a single paper on the species has been published in thedata that started 30 years ago in the days of the personal computer."

Kevin Bocek, vice president of product marketing at Venafi, agrees that "Gen Y trusts technology to an extent that other generations have not—their rush to use social media and anything mobile are just some examples of trusting and embracing technology."

But, he says, they are simply the newest part of the most common attack vector.

"People have been known by cybercriminals to be the weakest link, and spawned the use of phishing, spear phishing, water hole attacks and more for years."

Mike Tierney, vice president of operations at SpectorSoft, agreed.

"Access and availability have always been at odds with security and privacy," he said.

Enlist Gen Y in solution

Still, even some in the Gen Y age range acknowledge that the problem


Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump's fiercest critics may be dreaming of a last-minute revolt, but the Electoral College, a peculiarly American institution, appears near-certain on Monday to select the 70-year-old real estate mogul as the 45th US president.

Its detractors -- and they are many -- have denounced an electoral system that flies in the face of the venerated "one man, one vote" principle, and which perversely encourages presidential candidates to campaign in only a few key states while ignoring whole swaths of the country.

But despite the torrent of criticism this method has faced for decades, no reform attempt has ever succeeded.

When American voters cast their ballots on November 8, they did not in fact directly elect the next occupant of the White House. Instead, they picked 538 "electors"can't accept the outcome of the election. It's about delegitimizing the american system."

He added: "We're very confident that everything is going to be very smooth tomorrow."

The final result may not be known on Monday, as states are given several days to report their numbers. The Congress will, in any case, announce the name of the official winner on January 6, two weeks before the next president is to be inaugurated in a solemn and pomp-filled ceremony outside the Capitol.

- A 'disaster' or bit of 'genius'? -

Asked about it at his final news conference of the year before leaving for a Hawaiian vacation, Barack Obama acknowledged that the system was "a vestige, it's a carry-over from an earlier vision of how our federal government was going to work," and


to do away with this antiquated and fundamentally undemocratic institution," he said in an op-ed article in the New York Times.

In November 2000, Hillary Clinton, then the newly elected Democratic senator from New York, issued a clear call for an electoral reform that would result in direct, universal suffrage.

Trump, for his part, has radically changed his stance on the matter in just four years.

"The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy," he tweeted in November 2012.

Last month, just days after a victory that seemed to stun even him, he sounded a rather different note: "The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play. Campaigning is much different!"mowed down its overmatched Dairyland Conference opponents and had one very reachable goal in its sights: the state tournament in Madison.

The center was a 6-foot-8 carrot-topped sophomore named Ralph Rasmuson, who would be the only one to play major college ball. The forwards were clearly Divison I material: Keith Johnson and Jack Hoyer were smooth ball-handlers with deft shooting touches. Senior Eliot "Bass'' Solsrud was a great defender and rebounder, and could bring the house down with his patented two-hand set shot from the corner of the gym. Senior guards Mike Teigen and Bob Dean were Mutt and Jeff in the backcourt, Teigen a pesky jitterbug defender and assist man; Dean a cool shooter unafraid to take any shot from the key.

Those five seniors and the big redheaded


sophomore did the lion's share of damage through the regular season, but Stellpflug also had a dependable bench and he substituted freely as games got out of hand. Even I would get in late for some mop-up work.

Nobody wanted to play the Norsemen. Nobody, it turned out, except the Durand Panthers, a pretty good team from the Middle Border Conference. The scrappy Panthers, playing in their home gym, pulled off an amazing upset that Saturday night in March, overcoming a 10-point deficit with two minutes to play. Whitehall thought it had the game-winner when Rasmuson scored in the lane just ahead of the buzzer, but he was called for charging and the basket was disallowed.

Stellpflug would take heat the rest of his career for the blown lead. Theof things when it comes to Coach. Mostly I'm sorry that he's gone, that I never took the time to thank him, and that he never won a state championship. For himself, because he surely deserved one, and for the Orange and Black faithful of old Whitehall High, who are still waiting.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

I have a friend and former newspaper colleague who will be leaving his family and loved ones soon to take a job on the other side of the planet because there are no jobs left in America. So many are out of work already...why didn't somebody think of this sooner?

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

They're already out with the best albums of 2009 (so far) lists. Good thing, since I'm pitifully behind on my listening. If


I'll be happier with the narrow-minded choices I've already made in 2009. I will vouch for Neko Case (and that precious cover).

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

I was sitting outside a Starbucks today drinking my half-caf while reading some notes in preparation for an interview. That's when it happened.

A monarch butterfly appeared to be flitting through the thick Florida air in perfect sync with the music coming from the outdoor speakers. The music was Percy Faith's "Theme From a Summer Place'', surely one of the grandest songs of the ages. The butterfly never seemed to miss a beat. It was quite beautiful, just like Sandra Dee in the movie.

This remarkable moment reminded me something I was told recently. Which was: If you queue up Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of theand what we had heard of Harlem in our safe, lily-white community -- stories of crime, drugs and racial unrest -- was frightening even to consider.

"Harlem Nocturne'' only added to the mystery. The song, featuring an eerie vibrato lead-in and a raucously seductive saxophone, put you on a creaky summer porch in the big city. And from that uneasy perch you were able to contemplate a world you never actually experienced or knew.

The version I owned was a 45 RPM by the Viscounts, released around 1965-66. Where it came from I can only imagine. The song was written in 1939 by Earle Hagen, who was better known as a composer of television theme songs -- including the memorable whistling tune for "The Andy Griffith Show.''

Horn players of every


"Lullabys, Legends and Lies'', an album of mostly oddball tunes penned by Shel Silverstein. Here's a 1980 clip of Bare performing "Marie Laveau'' in Rotterdam, complete with Dutch subtitles. Daar gaan we dan!

We gave a birthday toast to Bare on his 74th back in April, mentioning at the time how much we enjoy his 2005 Dualtone release "The Moon Was Blue.'' It's nice to know the ol' coot still gets off his fishing boat occasionally to visit the recording studio.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Here they are, 10 songs that defined the Whitehall High School Class of '69. Let them be argued tonight at the Dodge Street Grill (which was the Pix Theatre back in the day) on the eve of our 40th reunion.

It's a shame the chosen beers ofRiley's "Harper Valley P.T.A.'' -- a true crossover No. 1 in September of '68 -- deserves inclusion.

Sentimental favorites: "Fire'' by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, "Who's Making Love'' by Johnnie Taylor, and "Oh Happy Day'' by the Edwin Hawkins Singers.

They might lobby for: "Build Me Up Buttercup'' by the Foundations, "Traces'' by the Classics IV, "Time of the Season'' by the Zombies.

Wish we could forget: "Dizzy'' by Tommy Roe, and "1, 2, 3 Red Light'' by the 1910 Fruitgum Company.

Hardest songs to keep off the list: "Born to be Wild'' (more of a summer remnant from Steppenwolf), "Worst That Could Happen'' by Brooklyn Bridge and "Those Were the Days'' by Mary Hopkin, because, my friends, those were the days...

Thursday, July 23, 2009

I was at a weekly newspaper


on Sinatra, but what the hell. "Strangers'' was a fine song. It was Frankie's only No. 1 of the rock era until he teamed up with his sultry go-go dancin' daughter Nancy the following year for "Somethin' Stupid.'' "Strangers'' held the Billboard top spot just one week, sandwiched between the Beatles' "Paperback Writer'' and "Hanky Panky'' by Tommy James and the Shondells.

No wheels yet -- we were sophomores-to-be -- but it was a fabulous time to be commandeering a record player (they had needles, and the records went 'round and 'round and got all scratched up) or blasting the hits of the day on the radio.

Funny thing, though. I don't remember "Strangers'' like I recall other songs from that fabulous summer. I was at Badger Boys Basketball Camp,into hits. It didn't hurt that Asher's sister, the actress Jane Asher, was dating McCartney at this time. Or that they were able to snare a contract with Capitol Records.

They had good songs to work with, indeed, and their floppy hair, proper attire and good lucks befitted the British music wave. But Peter Asher and Gordon Waller deserve credit for their strong vocal arrangements, which were on par with the Everly Brothers.

Anyone growing up in that era could instantly recite the lyrics to "World Without Love'', which topped the charts in June 1964:

Please lock me awayAnd don't allow the dayHere insideWhere I hideWith my lonelinessI don't care what they sayI won't stay in a world without love

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

She was so good she might have made it


must have been a tough time to be Loretta Lynn, who scored three No. 1s of her own during this stretch but watched Wynette win three consecutive CMA Female Vocalist of the Year awards.

Wynette would ultimately have 20 No. 1 songs in a magical teaming with Sherrill, the Epic Records producer. That's a career worthy of Hall of Fame status -- which she easily secured shortly after her death in 1998 at age 55. It's that she scored nearly half of those chart-toppers in just three years in Music City.

Monday, July 20, 2009

My friends at Red Beet Records in Nashville passed along this terrific video of Eric Brace performing "Tranquility Base,'' a tribute song to the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Neilyou think Arlo Guthrie will be able to resist breaking into "Alice's Restaurant?''

Here's an event that should have been on that summer concert tour list: The Newport Folk Festival turns 50 years old on Aug. 1-2. Wish we could be there.

Seeger, who recently turned 90, and Baez -- who made her professional debut in that first festival in 1959 -- are more than honorary headliners. They're the butter on the bread, and have been since the folk singing loaf came out of the oven. Seeger, who was introduced in '59 as "America's tuning fork'', stole the first show along with Odetta and Earl Scruggs, "the finest 5-string banjo picker in the nation today'' who tore into "Cumberland Gap.''

So many years, so much history. I wonder if they invited


Bob Dylan, who made his Newport debut in 1963 and caused such a fuss two years later with his first "electrified'' set.

There is plenty of new blood as well: Neko Case, Tift Merritt, Low Anthem, and the Avett Brothers -- who play at the Cuban Club tonight in Ybor City -- all will be there. So will Billy Bragg, who took those old Woody Guthrie lyrics and transformed them into the superb "Mermaid Avenue.''

Friday, July 17, 2009

I hope you have time to view this clip of Phoebe Snow from an undated CBS Sunday Morning show. If not now, then come back to it later.

Until listening again to "Poetry Man'', Snow's mellow hit single from her 1974 debut album, I had forgotten how melodically seductive that voice could be.It was the voice Rolling Stone called "a natural wonder'' and the NY Times more technically described as "contralto grounded in a bluesy growl and capable of sweeeping over four octaves.''

Whatever. It was the voice of Phoebe Snow, and we had never heard anything like it. Still haven't, which is why that album ought to be in everyone's collection and played on occasions like today, Phoebe's 57th birthday.

I had also forgotten, or never knew, the moving story of her daughter, Valerie Rose, and in saying so admit that I never really knew the story of Phoebe Snow.

So check out the clip. And listen to that sweet album, and the revealing words to "Either Or'':

Sometimes this lifeGets so emptyThat I become afraidThen I remember you're in itAnd I thinkI


was a key lobbyist for other humane causes. About half of the 200 concerts he performed each year were benefits.

Chapin had done this and that, and he had tried all that he wanted to try, to be content with himself and to improve the world through his charitable causes. But, sadly, he never made it to 65. Not even close.

On this day in 1981, on his way to another benefit concert, Chapin died on the Long Island Expressway in a bizarre accident that has never been fully explained. Either he was having a heart attack (the listed cause of death) or he was negotiating traffic with car trouble. With the emergency flashers blinking on his 1975 VW Rabbitt, Chapin swerved from the fast lane to the center lanelodged for the week in full view of the cape's spectacular beauty. From our perch on the deck you could smell the incoming tide before it arrived, and we would cast spoons into the teeming waters for schooling tinker mackerel.

The CD player would invariably be playing "Summer Wind'' or something else appropriate for the moment. I wonder now what the lobster men thought about that selection.

Like painted kites, those days and nights went flyin' byThe world was new beneath a blue umbrella skyThen softer than a piper man one day it called to youI lost you, I lost you to that summer wind

Speaking of flying by, it was 70 years ago today -- 70 years! -- when Frank Sinatra entered the recording studio for the first time to


car racing, so he had come up from his home in Atlanta for NASCAR's annual preseason media tour.

The beer was flowing and the chatter was boisterous. What better introduction to the world of professional gearheads than to spend a hour or two socializing with the scribes who wrote for a living about the sport? Talk about genuine good ol' boys. Hemphill was one of them himself -- an Alabama native -- only with a bit more polish and less scarlet around the neck.

The stories flowed that night along with the beer, and Hemphill -- a keen observer of human nature and spirit -- took it all in quietly from a couch in the crowded room. I'm not sure how many others were even aware that Hemphill was there,what with all the drinking and crazy stories, like the writer who drove a rental car into a motel pool.

There couldn't have been a bigger fan in the room that night than me. Everybody else was swapping stories about Richard Petty and Darrell Waltrip and life on the Winston Cup circuit, and all I wanted to hear about was Paul Hemphill. And there he was on the couch beside me.

My introduction to Hemphill's writing had come a few years earlier on the pages of "King of the Road'', an engaging novel about an uneasy relationship between a long-distance trucker and his son. My dad, like Hemphill's, had made a living as a gear-jammer, and I felt a strong connection to the story.

I would later go back and read


Hemphill's first book, "Nashville Sound'', another fascinating subject on the country music scene that he researched and wrote during a Nieman Fellowship in 1969. My library would later include "Long Gone'', a novel about minor league baseball, and "Lovesick Blues,'' a definitive look at the life of Hank Williams (mentioned in a previous post.) "Lovesick Blues'' was a gift from a friend who was thoughtful enough to have it autographed for me by the author. There are a dozen other works by Hemphill yet to track down, including "Leaving Birmingham'', which earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination.

Hemphill was polite, engaging and without pretentions, and -- as you would expect -- a delightful storyteller. Just the sort of person you'd enjoy meeting to shoot the bull about writing and sportsentered the Billboard chart on May 18, 1968.

Everything was clicking. He had charted with 17 instrumental songs, starting with "The Lonely Bull'' in 1962. His 1965 album Whipped Cream & Other Delights had sold more than 6 million copies, and its cover instantly became a yummy classic. He had his own record label, A&M (founded with business partner Jerry Moss), and a hot band, the Tijuana Brass.

One of the world's most popular trumpet players certainly didn't need a vocal arrangement at this stage of his career. But he got one anyway, from a couple of guys named Burt Bacharach and Hal David. And "This Guy's In Love With You'' became one of those magical songs that hit the mainstream and soared to the top.

The song became the first


KDWB would not long after declare its Top 630 songs of all time and place "Satisfaction'' at the top.

(Thanks to oldiesloon.com for the poster of Hal Murray. He had left KDWB by '65 but the image was too crazy not to include here.)

Thursday, July 9, 2009

It's just a box of rainI don't know who put it thereBelieve it if you need itOr leave it if you dareBut it's just a box of rainOr a ribbon for your hairSuch a long long time to be gone And a short time to be there

The Grateful Dead closed their concert at Soldier Field in Chicago on this date in 1995 with a medley of "Black Muddy River'' and "Box of Rain.''

Then they were gone. Forever.

A month later Jerry Garcia would dieof a heart attack at a drug rehab facility in Forest Knolls, Calif., where he had checked himself in for heroin abuse.

A group that formed in the early Sixties as Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions and morphed into the Warlocks would finally settle on a name that captured the spirit and timbre of San Francisco's psychedelic counterculture. And they would play, on and on. They played a fusion of blues, rock, folk and bluegrass, and it's improbable they ever played any song the same way twice because they were sonic innovators and, well, their stoned fans wouldn't have known the difference anyway.

The final Chicago show was No. 2,314 in the band's glorious career. That's a lot of concerts and a lot of Deadheads -- and a lot of


joints to pass around.

Yet, as the song goes, it's such a long time to be gone and a short time to be there.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Shannon McNally had opened for Son Volt at Jannus Landing in St. Pete, and she stopped playing her acoustic guitar long enough to introduce the final song of her set. She was moved, she said, to hear Rick Danko sing the ballad shortly before he died. Then she dedicated the song to him, while giving proper credit to the man who made it famous, Johnny Cash.

The song was "Long Black Veil'', and McNally gave a stirring rendition. You had to be stone drunk if you didn't get goosebumps or shed a tear. Even then it should have moved you.

She walks these hills inmatchless sound. "Stage Fright'' and "The Weight'' are among Danko's other lasting vocal imprints, and those clips are available online as well.

Alas, there's no video of Danko singing "Long Black Veil'' live, which must have been a rare treat. But I did find a clip of him teaching electric bass guitar techniques. Click here, and hang in there until the end to hear him sing a few bars of Little Walter's "Just Your Fool.''

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

The release of new Wilco and Son Volt albums on consecutive weeks will spark further inevitable comparisons between former Uncle Tupelo bandmates Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar. I've been one to stoke that fire myself in previous blogs, but I'm not going there this time. Not yet, anyway.

Each album deserves a fair


With that voice, it was no wonder.

But you can only abuse yourself so long before it catches up to you. The game was getting old, and Jones wasn't getting any younger. It had been 25 years since he first hit the country charts with "Why Baby Why'' in 1955. He had charted an amazing 108 songs during that time, nine of them ascending to No. 1.

But this was early 1980, and Jones hadn't scored a No. 1 in four years. Good god almighty, Eddie Rabbitt had FOUR chart-toppers during that stretch. Jones was living from song to song and bottle to bottle. His prospects were dimmer than an ABC Liquor Lounge when he entered CBS' Studio B in Nashville to record the song. Especially THAT song.

Jones felt theBobby Braddock-Curly Putnam offering was too melancholy to go anywhere. He was hungover and ornery, and when he got to the song's talking parts he couldn't get it right without slurring the words. Ol' Possum was hurting, but good.

In other words, it was the perfect storm for a country classic -- which "He Stopped Loving Her Today'' surely became. It entered the Billboard chart on May 3 and less than two months later -- on this very day in 1980 -- it became Jones' 10th No. 1 song. It also would win the CMA Single of the Year and earn Jones a Grammy award. And it would save more than his bacon.

As Jones recounted years later: "A four-decade career was salvaged by a three-minute song.'' Three minutes and


19 seconds of heart-wrenching, tear-jerking bliss that today is widely regarded as the greatest country song of all time. Hear it for yourself.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

With those words Casey Kasem will sign off today for one final time as host of one of America's most popular radio countdowns. But it won't be American Top 40, which was born on this historic date in 1970. That show is now in the hands of American Idol host Ryan Seacrest.

Kasem, who has retired and unretired about the same number of times as Brett Favre, has been hosting American Top 20 and American Top 10.

And this weekend is his latest swan song. But will this be Casey's final 10 countdown?

That's your Mainstream Top 10 for the week, and American Top 40 andsix years ago -- when Rolling Stone ranked "Thriller'' No. 20 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time:Jackson was at the peak of his art and adulthood. It is hard now to separate the wonder of Thriller from its commercial stature and Jackson's current nightmare of tabloid celebrity and self-destructive egomania. But there was a time when he was truly the King of Pop. This is it."Thriller'' has to be considered one of the greatest commercial successes of all time. The numbers are mind-numbing: 26 million records sold, 37 weeks at No. 1, 8 Grammys and 7 Top 10 singles. But here's another number: 1982. "Thriller'' came out 27 years ago.

I'm not sure when he morphed into the freak show that he became. But


Michael Jackson, who was 50, peaked 27 years ago.

If he had been able to launch that big tour, would it have been much like Elvis' comeback, which was really more of a refusal to go away? One obvious difference being that while Elvis became bloated, Michael was withering away.

Neil Young was singing about Elvis and Johnny Rotten on "Hey Hey, My My.'' But he could have been singing about any artist who sold 415,000 albums (58 percent of them digital downloads) in the first week following his death:Out of the blue and into the blackThey give you this but you pay for thatAnd once you're gone you can never come backWhen you're out of the blue and into the black.

McKenzie's song, written by John Phillips of the Mamasnever saw Willy Deville live so we figured the Willy Deville Acoustic Trio in Berlin might ease the pain. And it does...Justin Townes Earle's Harlem River Blues is one of the best albums of the year. We've had it in the player for a few days now and it's headed for the big board. Huge regrets for missing him in NYC.... Of all the sets out there for Johnny Cash, none top The Legend, a sterling 4-disc set that is often playing when Jimmy is manning the tap at our favorite watering hole. Thanks, man ... The stars were out above Gavel Ridge last night and Seasick Steve's Man From Another Time was in the player. Be sure to hang in there for a very memorable hidden track.Mick


put on Fred J. Eaglesmith's Bootleg Volume 1 from 2002. Nothing better than a songwriting storyteller. Or is he a storytelling songwriter? Hope that Case tractor he bought is working out good for him. ... Speaking of Johnny Paycheck, look what popped out of a moving box this morning: Touch My Heart, A Tribute to Johnny Paycheck. Mavis Staples' cover track is true gem, but there's plenty more in in this 2004 release produced by Robbie Fulks. ... Red Beet Records has done it again, and East Nashville: More Music From the Other Side Vol. 3 might be the best one yet. It has one of my favorite songs (and videos) of the year in Eric Brace's "Tranquility Base", and sooooo much more. Back to you later onturns out to be a tall glass of beer.) ... Kris Kristofferson calls Paul Thorn "the best kept secret in the music business." I feel pretty good, then, having seen Thorn twice in concert. And I'm finally getting to his latest release "A Long Way From Tupelo.'' ... I had a dream that Graham Parker had a new album out, and that he bought a hamburger for me and sat down to discuss some issues regarding a concert that went awry in Miami. Not sure how to interpret that, other than to put on "Mona Lisa's Sister'' and listen again. Always good stuff. ... Spending the morning with the Oscar Peterson Trio's "Night Train.'' I love the piano, but there are times when you just want to zero


staff for the BAM and SS streams and understands a fair bit about the technology. I figured that I would need his help, being an AV noob.

We talk about a fair few topics in this podcast; such as the blood sweat and tech behind his streams, how he grew from Forza recordings to creating his own stream team “Team Bugs”, streaming SS and Diablo, cameras and microphones, how much he hates certain big screen TVs, Shadowlogic, the community in general and just how he manages to keep his passion going.

I hope you guys enjoy the interview, and let us raise a glass (filled with alcoholic beverage to butter Bugs) to one of the silent heroes of our community.As announced in Elon University's "E-net! Headlines" newsletter, Alexandria Intellectual Property Shareholder Bassam N. Ibrahim was one of four recently appointed to the university's Law School Advisory Board. According to the announcement, Ibrahim — who attended Elon for his undergraduate degree — was appointed "for remarkable contributions to the legal profession and to society."

"We are pleased to welcome into Elon's Law School Advisory Board these four lawyer leaders, each with outstanding perspective and broad experience in the legal profession and in civic life," said George R. Johnson, Jr., dean of Elon University School of Law. "We look forward to the many contributions they will make to support the academic and service missions of Elon Law."


'NAFTA lite': Trump and Democrats' trade deal is similar to pact president mocked as 'worst ever'

Michael Collins | USA TODAY

Show Caption Hide Caption Pelosi announces agreement on USMCA trade pact House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday announced agreement on a modified North American trade pact, handing President Donald Trump a major win on the same day that Democrats announced their impeachment charges against him. (Dec. 10)

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump relentlessly ridiculed the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada as the “worst trade deal ever” when he was running for office and promised to rip it up if he was elected.

But instead of tearing the agreement to shreds, Trump mostly patched it up.

The new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, known as the USMCA, that is supposed to replaceto environmental laws, regulations and practices.

Democrats hailed the changes as a victory for American workers. But Dan Ikenson, a trade expert at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, argued the revisions made the new trade agreement worse because it will now be easier for special interests to halt trade by simply accusing Mexican factories of violating labor or environmental provisions.

In addition, the tougher auto standards will have the effect of forcing car manufacturers to keep production facilities in the United States instead of moving them to Mexico, he said.

“There’s a lot of upstream protectionism that has been baked into this agreement,” Ikenson said.

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said the new pact “rebalances trade in North America,” which will lead to more American jobs, and that the


as people believed in ancient times.

As opposed to the large and noisy worldwide group, the Israeli supporters of the flat Earth theory remain quiet and inaccessible. Guy Mass, the guiding spirit behind the website, wrote to me that he refuses to be interviewed by the establishment media. His partner Richard Byrd, on the other hand, is in favor of spreading the word to the ignorant. When he heard that Mass had turned me down, he approached me on his own initiative.

We met in Tel Aviv. He pulled out a calling card (with his real name). It turns out that he’s a CEO in a real estate company, 39 years old, a father, and he lives in the center of the country. A Google search reveals that the companythere was something to it.”

Ilan Ramon, Israel’s link to NASA, is of course of significance for the Israeli group. Israeli flat Earthers posted a video that claims that Ramon is living among us. They believe that during NASA flights the astronaut, who is dubbed an astro-not, is concealed in a secret cell in the belly of the earth, which he leaves after the supposed landing, to embark on a PR campaign. Of course the film uses actors. According to the flat Earthers, Russia and the United States deceived one another in the race to space and reported on fictitious achievements in order to defeat the other side, and that’s how the legends about Sputnik and the moon landing were invented. At present the deception is based on greed.

In


when the Flat Earth Society was established. The society had a few thousand members and it declined slowly. It resumed operations again in the previous decade and was opened for registration, but within a short time it split into several competing societies, each of which suspects that the others were sent by the establishment. Paranoia about an all-embracing conspiracy by the media or science (or intellectuals) is often a sign of anti-Semitism, and in fact some of the foreign groups accuse the Jewish people of a conspiracy.

One of the two managers of the Israeli flat earth Facebook group is a 37-year-old musician named Idan (not his real name). The small and closed Facebook group was not designed to convince believers. In effect it’s the headquarters of those whoLeeNogan

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Date of birth

21/05/1969

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Previous Clubs (as Manager) - Whitby Town

Nogan began his playing career on the books at Oxford United where he turned professional in the 1986-87 season. After signing his pro contract, Nogan went on to join Brentford on loan for the rest of the season, where he scored twice in 11 appearances.

His next few years were spent unsettled, only making a handful appearances in 1987-88 and scoring once when the U's were relegated to the Second Division. He only made occassional appearances in the following two seasons under former Vale manager Brian Horton. However, the following season Nogan went on to make 25 appearances scoring five times in the first half of the 1991-92 season, before making the switch to Watford in December.

He spent 3 years at


Vicarage Road and towards the end of his spell at Watford, had lost his first-team place under new manager Glenn Roeder. He returned to Roots Hall for a second loan spell with Southend United who were now in the First Division.

His exploits for the Seasiders earned him a move to Reading in January 1995, and helped the Royals to a 2nd placed in the First Division. During that season, the striker scored a hat-trick against Port Vale in a 3-3 draw at Reading’s old ElmPark.

The Royals missed out on promotion up to the Premier League following a defeat in the play-off finals at the hands of Bolton Wanderers. Nogan had given Reading the lead in the fourth minute, but went on to lose the game 4-3 after extratime.

Reading then struggled the following two seasons, and Nogan scored 17 goals in his next 70 appearances for the hoops.

He made the move north to Grimsby in 1997, and won promotion to the First Division via the play-off’s after beating NorthamptonTown. Nogan and Grimsby also went on to win the League Trophy with a 2-1 win over AFC Bournemouth.

Nogan spent the longest spell of his career at YorkCity, but before making the move to Bootham Crescent he had spells at Darlington and LutonTown. Nogan went on to make 167 appearances for York, scoring 35 times for the Minstermen.

Nogan linked up with former teammate Neil Aspin at HarrogateTown as Aspin had now turned manager, before ending his playing career at PickeringTown.

Alongside his domestic exploits, Nogan made two appearances for


the Welsh national team.

Nogan moved into management in 2006 where he was appointed manager of WhitbyTown. However, he resigned from his post the following season.

In 2014, Nogan linked up with Aspin once again, as he became his assistant at FC Halifax Town, and has been by his side ever since, following Aspin to Gateshead and now on to Port Vale.Топик: St. Valentine's day

St. Valentine's Day St. Valentine's Day falls on February 14, and is the traditional day on which lovers in certain cultures let each other http://www.homeenglish.ru/Articles35.htmknow about their love, commonly by sending Valentine's cards, which are often anonymous. The history of Valentine's day can be traced back to an obscure Catholic Church feast day, said to be in honor of Saint Valentine. The day's associations with romantic love arrived after the High Middle Ages, during which the concept of romantic love was formulated.

The day is now most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of "valentines." Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, the practice of hand writing notes has


largely given way to the exchange of mass-produced greeting cards. The Greeting Card Association estimates that, world-wide, approximately one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. The association also estimates that women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines.

History of Valentine's Day

February fertility festivals The association of the middle of February with love and fertility dates to ancient times. In the calendar of Ancient Athens, the period between mid January and mid February was the month of Gamelion, which was dedicated to the sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera.

In Ancient Rome, the day of February 15 was Lupercalia, the festival of Lupercus, the god of fertility, who was represented as half-naked and dressed in goatmartyrdom in the second half of the 3rd century and was also buried on the Via Flaminia, but in a different location than the priest. a martyr in North Africa, about whom little else is known. The connection between St. Valentine and romantic love is not mentioned in any early histories and is regarded by secular historians as purely a matter of legend (see below). The feast of St. Valentine was first declared to be on February 14 by Pope Gelasius I in 496. There is a widespread legend that he created the day to counter the practice held on Lupercalia of young men and women pairing off as lovers by drawing their names out of an urn, but this practice is not attested in any sources from


that era.

In the 19th century, relics of St. Valentine were donated by Pope Gregory XVI to the Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland, which has become a popular place of pilgrimage on February 14.

In 1969, as part of a larger effort to pare down the number of saint days of purely legendary origin, the Church removed St. Valentine's Day as an official holiday from its calendar.

Valentine The influential Gnostic teacher Valentinius was a candidate for Bishop of Rome in 143. In his teachings, the marriage bed assumed a central place in his version of Christian love, an emphasis sharply in contrast with the asceticism of mainstream Christianity. Stephan A. Hoeller assesses Valentinius on the subject : "In addition to baptism, anointing, eucharist, the initiation of priests andthe rites of the dying, the Valentinian Gnosis mentions prominently two great and mysterious sacraments called "redemption" (apolytrosis) and "bridal chamber" respectively".

Medieval era Swedish calendar showing St Valentine's Day 14 February 1712 The first recorded association of St. Valentine's Day with romantic love was in the 14th century in England and France, where February 14 was traditionally the day on which birds paired off to mate. This belief is mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's Parlement of Foules (1381)

It was common during that era for lovers to exchange notes on this day and to call each other their "Valentines". A 14th century valentine is said to be in the collection of the British Library. It is probable that many of the legends about St. Valentine were invented during this period.


Among the legends are ones that assert that:

On the evening before St. Valentine was to be martyred for being a Christian, he passed a love note to his jailer's daughter which read, "From Your Valentine." During a ban on marriages of Roman soldiers by the Emperor Claudius II, St. Valentine secretly helped arrange marriages. In most versions of these legends, February 14 is the date associated with his martyrdom.

Valentine's Day in the USA Valentine's Day was probably imported into North America in the 19th century with settlers from Britain. In the United States, the first mass-produced valentines of embossed paper lace were produced and sold shortly after 1847 by Esther Howland (1828 – 1904) of Worcester, Massachusetts. Her father operated a large book and stationery store, and shetook her inspiration from an English valentine she had received. (Since 2001, the Greeting Card Association has been giving an annual "Esther Howland Award for a Greeting Card Visionary".)

In the United States in the second half of the 20th century, the practice of exchanging cards was extended to include the giving of all manner of gifts, usually from a man to a woman. Such gifts typically include roses and chocolates. Starting in the 1980s, the diamond industry began to promote Valentine's Day as an occasion for giving fine jewelry.

In 1929 due to tensions between gangs in Chicago, members of a gang led by Al Capone killed several members of Bugs Moran's gang in what became known as the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.

The day has come to be associated


with a generic platonic greeting of "Happy Valentine's Day."

Those without a significant other often speak with sarcasm by referring to Valentine's Day as "Singles' Awareness Day".

Valentine's Day in Other Cultures In Japan and Korea, Valentine's Day has emerged, thanks to a concentrated marketing effort, as a day on which women give candy to men they like. Rather than being voluntary however, this has become for many women – especially those who work in offices – an obligation, and they give chocolates to all their male co-workers, sometimes at significant personal expense. This chocolate is known as giri-choco, in Japan, from the words giri (obligation) and choco, a common short version of chokoreto, meaning chocolate.

By a further marketing effort, a reciprocal day, called White Day has emerged. On thisday (March 14), men are supposed to return the favour by giving something to those who gave them chocolates on Valentine's Day. Many men, however, give only to their girlfriends. Originally the return gift was supposed to be white chocolate or marshmallows (hence the name "White Day"). However, more recently men have taken the name to a different meaning, thus lingerie is quite a common gift.

In Korea, there is also an additional Black Day, held on April 14, when males who did not receive anything for Valentine's Day gather together to eat Jajangmyun (Chinese-style noodles in black sauce).

In Chinese Culture, there is a similar counterpart of the Valentine's Day. It is called "The Night of Sevens", on the 7th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar;


the last one being August 11, 2005 [2]. (A slightly different version of this day is celebrated in Japan as Tanabata, on July 7th (the same day, but transcribed to the solar calendar)).

In Persian Culture (Iran) this popular date is discreetly celebrated by most lovers despite the disapproval of such occasion by the hardline slamic government as a copycat of the west, but Persian youths and adults manage to celebrate following the traditions of the west disregarding the unfair limitations and restrictions imposed by the government.

In Brazil, there is no such day as Valentine's Day. Instead, on June 12, "Dia dos Namorados" (lit. "Day of the enamored", or "Boyfriend's/Girlfriend's Day") is celebrated. On this day, boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives, exchange gifts (lingerie, chocolates, and more), cardsFake News: Media, Democrats Distort Remarks to Target Jeff Sessions

Democrats and the media are once again targeting Attorney General Jeff Sessions — this time, over allegations that he met twice with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The Washington Postreports that Sessions met Sergey Kislyak once at a Heritage Foundation event in July 2016, where other ambassadors were also present. It also reports that Sessions met with Kislyak in his Senate office in September, in his capacity on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The hook on which the Post attempts to hang Sessions is that he did not disclose the meetings to the Senate when he was asked about “possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow.” Sessions’s spokesperson at the Department of Justice,


no evidence in the Post nor elsewhere to cast doubt on that claim.

The New York Times covers the story and adds an interesting wrinkle — namely, that Obama administration officials did whatever they could to distribute information within the government about alleged contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian intermediaries. (The Times calls this an attempt to “preserve” evidence, which would have been a departure from the Obama administration’s more typical practice of hiding evidence on personal email accounts and hidden email servers.)

That suggests a coordinated hit job, including espionage against the Russian ambassador, and possibly against members of the Trump campaign, even in their unrelated activities.

Regardless, as Flores noted to the Post, Sessions had meetings with “more than 25” ambassadors. The Post lists several of those, butCourt: Overruled.
"The Witness: He said he was caught. I asked him if he had registered the still according to law, and he said he hadn't. I asked him if he had given bond and he said he hadn't. I asked him if he had posted a sign at that still according to law, and he said he hadn't. He laughed and he said he was caught. He had paid offhis wife had been sick and he had paid off the doctor bills with that money.
"Mr. Swann: We object to that.
"The Court: I sustain the objection as to what he paid off with that money.
"The Witness: He said they were intending to run between thirty and thirty-five gallons of liquor at that time if they had not been caught


Sex in Bangalore Hotels

Online sex racket busted in Bangalore

January 7, 2019 – 03:30 am

Bangalore: The anti-narcotics wing of the Central Crime Branch raided a star hotel on Brigade Road and arrested four women, including the receptionist of the hotel, for soliciting customers online and providing them with prostitutes.

The group worked as regular employees for the hotel and managed the racket through an online escort service on the side.

The police stumbled upon the Bangalore Escort Service website and contacted Rajesh posing as prospective customers, which led to the bust.

One of the key accused Mary Agnes (37), who also worked as the receptionist, acted as the go-between for the pimps, the girls and the customers.

Joint Commissioner of Police Alok Kumar said that the kingpin of the racket, Rajesh, used toarrange girls from Delhi and Mumbai and place them in star hotels with the help of Agnes and then contact his clients through his website. Once a deal was clinched, he offered Agnes's mobile numbers for a predetermined rate.

Agnes used to receive payment after escorting the customers to rooms where the girls were already booked and then transfer the amount to her associate's account.

Among the other accused, the police arrested Mahi Bosoi (22), from Delhi and Sonia Kamble (21), from Pune. "The duo was operating from the hotel for the past month, " said Assistant Commissioner of Police R Lakshman.

Based on information, the police have also raided another hotel in Sheshadripuram and arrested Mumbai-based Sania Ansari (22). Enquiries revealed that she was staying in the hotel for them


past week and had earned around Rs 1.8 lakh.

However, Rajesh and his associate Kumar alias Michael, who were key players in the racket managed to escape.

They are constantly on the move and used to operate online, which makes it difficult to catch them, the police said, adding that both are suspected to be running similar rackets in other parts of the country.

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Business Insider reports Serena Williams has documented her recent trip to Europe on Instagram — but one photo has fans convinced she made a pit stop in Windsor to visit Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, and baby Archie last week.


is now under investigation by House Democrats in the wake of a POLITICO Magazine report of political appointees interfering with the work of career officials analyzing the environmental impacts of opening up the sensitive region. Balash plans to stay in his position through Aug. 30, according to a copy of his resignation letter posted by Alaskan reporter Nat Herz.

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WOUND UP OVER WAIVERS: EPA's internal watchdog is being asked to determine how the agency decided to grant the vast majority of exemptions from the Renewable Fuel Standard that oil refiners have requested. EPA approved 31 petitions for waivers from the 2018 requirements, while rejecting just six, and corn-state lawmakers have howled at what they see as special favors for the oil industry. Freshman Iowa Democratic Rep. Cindy Axne (D-Iowa)effectiveness of penalties, but the agency argued it lacks the legal authority to make such changes.

OIL FIRMS FIGHT PIPELINE’S EFFORT TO RECOUP TARIFF COSTS: Two oil companies are asking FERC to stop a pipeline operator from raising prices to recoup the cost of steel tariffs, the latest fallout from the Trump administration's trade war and tariffs on imported steel, Ben Lefebvre reports.

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WASHINGTON — COURT UPHOLDS COAL TERMINAL LEASE REJECTION: A trio of Washington judges on Tuesday upheld the state's decision to deny the lease of state-owned lands for the Millennium Bulk Terminal, which would have shipped Western coal to Asia. The decision creates a major roadblock for any future effort to build the export terminal. The judges said the state's close consideration of the company's financial


condition "was especially reasonable given the circumstances" as "coal market conditions were not promising, with U.S. coal production dropping."

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The body of David Ray Brady, 54, was found at the side of Moore Road, just south of Dean Still Road, at about 9:45 p.m. His death is being treated as suspicious.

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the Committee on the Fiscal Future of the United States of the National Research Council and the National Academy of Public Administration, the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform, fiscal experts Alan Auerbach and William Gale, as well as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities — have produced detailed assessments of the long-term fiscal problem facing the United States. [2]Every one of those studies focuses on debt held by the public. Every one concludes that federal debt will grow under current policies to levels that will be harmful to the economy. The decision to focus those studies on debt held by the public clearly does not arise from an effort by the authors to minimize the long-term problem the nation faces.

Debt held by the public is important becauseleast, stopped spending any money on television advertising in any of the remaining primary states to preserve that money for the general. That could change, especially after some question her campaign’s decision to cede the airwaves to Sanders in Indiana. Her campaign has already been rolling out officials to run her general election campaign in key battleground states like Ohio and Florida.

But as long as Clinton has to stay in the primary, she might as well make it count, said Mo Elleithee, a former Democratic National Committee official who now runs Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics.

Clinton can use the remaining primaries and caucuses as tools to develop her messaging and organizational prowess for the general. “In 2008, John McCain was the nominee in March, and we kept going


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There are numerous snorkling points in the islands close to Labuan Bajo.  Kanawa and Seraya Islands, for example, offer good diving and snorkeling sites.  Currents can be strong at some sites however so care is needed. Every evening at Kalong Island, to the south of Labuan Bajo, thousands of flying fox bats (known as burung kalong in Indonesian) provide an amazing display. Around dusk the bats rise up from the mangroves around Kalong Island and within a few minutes, a column begins to form as thousands of bats begin to traverse across to the main island of Flores to the east.  More and more bats join the column for perhaps the next 30 mins or so.  The column soon forms into a remarkableLaura Breiling for BuzzFeed News

Last season of The Bachelor ended with a twist and a bang after protagonist Arie Luyendyk Jr. dumped his chosen bride-to-be, contestant Becca Kufrin, on camera. In an unprecedented move, he ultimately proposed to the runner-up, becoming one of the franchise’s most infamous villains but also setting up the arc for the current season of The Bachelorette. This iteration of the show was designed to — finally — give Kufrin the televised happily-ever-after of her dreams. The motto accompanying the unveiling of her official Bachelorette portrait was her own no-nonsense catchphrase: “Let’s do the damn thing!”

But, as usual, most of the best drama and comic relief on this season of The Bachelorette, the show’s 14th, has come not from Becca herself but from the


antics of and squabbles among the men who are (theoretically) there to vie for her affection. Whether it was contestants Chris and Lincoln fighting during a public debate in front of Virginia’s governor about how the latter fat-shamed the former behind the Bachelorette's back, or the simpler spectacle of male model Jordan — beloved for the dumb blonde broetry of his mystifying and grammatically innovative Jordanisms — walking across the house in tight gold underwear (as a prelude to unveiling his “deeper” side to Becca), the show’s theater of petty masculinities is unlike anything else on television. So much of reality TV in particular — from The Bachelor itself to Basketball Wives to The Real Housewives — is generated through scenarios that, on some level, pit women againston Earth that produces physical and mental effects on the body similar to those experienced in space. Participants are volunteers that must pass a physical and psychological assessment to qualify.

During this thirteenth HERA mission, crew members went through many of the motions of a real deep space mission without ever actually leaving the Johnson Space Center. This was the fourth in a series of studies, called campaigns, with progressively longer simulated mission lengths. In this campaign, this was the first of four 45-day simulated missions. Previous campaigns studied seven-day, 14-day, and 30-day missions. Longer mission lengths allow for more research studies and more data points relevant to longer duration spaceflight missions.

Several research studies utilize a limited sleep protocol for the four missions of Campaign 4. During Mission 1,


Trump aide defends, downplays birther focus

An aide to Donald Trump is defending his boss for releasing an unofficial hospital record he claimed was a birth certificate, while also seeking to distance the real estate mogul from the so-called birther movement he's repeatedly whipped up in recent days.

The aide, Michael Cohen, says Trump will focus on "more important" issues if he runs for president next year.

Cohen told CBS that what Trump released was clearly "something that his parents had given him years and years ago and he obviously just had it put away."

He said that Trump is "not yet" president, adding: "If he is asked to produce a raised seal New York City Department of Health birth certificate, I'm pretty sure he can have one in as quick aUdhayveer Sidhu collected a double gold as India took pole position on day one of the Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany.

Udhayveer shot 575 in the junior men’s 25m standard pistol event to lead a clean sweep for India as Adarsh Singh (568) and Anish Bhanwala (566) won silver and bronze respectively at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) tournament for rifle, pistol and shotgun shooters.

READ: Olympic quota holders to take part in invitation-only Sardar Sajjan Singh Sethi Masters Championship

Udhayveer then combined with Adarsh and his twin Vijayveer Sidhu to also pick up the team gold in the event with a combined effort of 1707, a junior world record.

The team silver in the event also went to India as its second team comprising Anish, Rajkanwar Sandhu and Dilshaan


Kelley shot a total of 1676 to finish behind the gold medal winning team.

India had five medals - two gold, two silvers and one bronze -- at the end of day one. China and Thailand are second and third with one gold medal each.case of expulsion of product outside the bag using an airless pump, a vent is provided, generally in the base or neck of the flask, to allow external air to enter the space between the flask and the bag each time the pump is actuated, thus allowing the bag to contract while maintaining sufficient pressure on its walls. An illustrative embodiment using this technique is described in patent FR 2.723.356, which relates to a device comprising a bag made from flexible plastic, such as polyethylene or polypropylene, in a rigid container whose neck has an air inlet.


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Remnant regular and Cato Institute trade expert Scott Lincicome returns to the show for his periodic trade update, and to discuss whether the “national conservatism” assessment of trade is correct. Sign up for the G-File Remnant Episode 10: Afraid of Trade? – Scott Lincicome Remnant Episode 33: The Nacho Situation – Scott Lincicome Remnant Episode … Continue reading Episode 122: The Lincicome Ultimatum →their volunteer participation. The authors would also like to extend their application for the University of Gondar, School of Biomedical and Laboratory Sciences, and the University of Gondar Referral Hospital for logistic supports.

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4:35 PM — Orlando terrorist reportedly abused gay man at gym.

4:30 PM —

University of Denver tolls bell 49 times for each Orlando shooting victim: https://t.co/wCQ7qfePuC via @YouTube — 9NEWS Denver (@9NEWS) June 15, 2016

4:25 PM — Also an indictment of the Republican establishment permanent political class:

Happy first anniversary to the saddest major presidential campaign of all time. https://t.co/Mbv8wOWUau pic.twitter.com/mOkHyaTXei — Miami New Times (@MiamiNewTimes) June 15, 2016

After Orlando terror attack, Rubio reconsidering Senate run:

4:24 PM — Trump heading to the Lone Star State again:

Trump's Texas itinerary:

– Thursday: Fundraiser and rally in Dallas

– Friday: Fundraisers in San Antonio and Houston, rally in The Woodlands — Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) June 15, 2016

4:21 PM — Sen. Warren, pushing more gun control after the Orlando attacks, says Senators will have “bloodwould only say “Hi” over and over. He says he eventually blocked Mateen, but knows 4 friends who say the Orlando murderer remained active on other apps. He says Mateen used Adam4Adam to send shots of his penis to men — but never showed his face. Cedeno says he has no knowledge Mateen was ever successful in hooking up with a man. On the other hand … a female user on Plenty Of Fish says Mateen reached out to her 18 months ago. She says he was “nice, normal … mentioned he had a child, but said he was single and looking for a good woman to marry.”

3:25 PM —

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Every St. Lucie County school is now protected by at least one deputy, sheriff says

ST. LUCIE COUNTY — Every county school is now protected by at least one armed deputy, Sheriff Ken Mascara said at a media briefing Tuesday.

The Sheriff's Office on Monday started posting deputies at elementary campuses, even as lawmakers continue to debate legislation on funding and staffing school security in the wake of a deadly Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Mascara said.

Previously, high schools had two school resource deputies and middle schools had one. Deputies patrolled near elementary campuses in the past, but campuses did not have dedicated security.

"We continue to look for immediate solutions that make our students feel safe, make our parents feel confident, and make our educators and public feel safe"Tonight, I Have something to show you Nikki."

After their match on Sunday, Natalya practically dragged Nikki Bella to their shared hotel room. The pair had been going out for several months or so, and had often hooked up whilst on the road and in Hotels. Tonight though, Natalya had something in mind...

Arriving at their room, both women strolled in. In the centre of the room was a Queen sized double bed, with red and white duvet and mattress covers respectively. Dumping their bags into the far corner of the room, Nikki lay on the bed sheets gazing at Natalya.

"What do you think you're doing?" Asked Natalya

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