It's not just about checking things off the To Do list and achieving lofty goals. It's about dreaming up goals and manifesting those ideas while living and enjoying the journey along the way." Follow Kathleen as she chases her goals and inspires you to discover your own.

Nick isn't long-winded in most of his posts, but he often shares inspirational quotes from the pioneers of yesterday. He's also full of wisdom like this: "Follow the path of your passions. Live deliberately and look back often to reflect and learn from the experiences that led you where you are today." Follow Nick to keep your feed full of surprises.

Maiza is a Brazilian climber who calls Washington home. For her, it's become a tradition to spend Christmas Day outside. She skiedlast year, but opted for something more low key this holiday. "I remember skiing my legs off last year, but we just wanted to enjoy friends and laugh when each other tripped on their snowshoes and face planted over and over again. The joy of life are in small things right?" She also recently tied the knot on the summit of Liberty Bell Peak. It was "a wedding to remember. Hours of climbing and we made to the top. With a messy hair and a puffy on top of my dress we said "I do". Very simple like life should be." Follow Maiza for more adventures and simple life lessons.

Ryan's posts are as informative as they are inspiring. This fall he went in search of larches. "What are


Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Olympic Day - Goal!

The Youth Olympic games is just some 9 months away, and the countdown has already begun. As part of the run-up to it, many schools, as part of their post-exam activities, are holding Olympic Days - well both of my children's school had it. They play games which will be contested during the up-coming YOG, on an inter-class level.

Well, my son represented his class for a soccer game against another class. Let me share with you a beautiful goal he scored.

During the match, he saw an opportunity to score a goal, so he went for it and kicked as hard as he could. He was not wearing his soccer boots but his new pair of school shoes which we had bought justwhen he hit, choked, and dragged Stachowski out the door and into his car.

The police pulled the couple over, and Avery was arrested and ordered to stay away from Stachowski for three days. According to a Milwaukee Mag story about the incident, Avery was also fined $243.

Another time, Stachowski said she was taking a bath when Avery allegedly threatened to throw a blow dryer into the water: “He told me he’d be able to get away with it.”

Later in the HLN interview, she describes him as “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and said that Avery threatened to kill her, a friend, and her family members on multiple occasions.

Stachowski called Avery "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" during the HLN interview. HLN

Stachowski also reveals that Avery was extremely jealous. She


Sunday, April 22, 2007

NEW GREEK AND ROMAN GALLERIES AT THE MET

Last Friday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its new Greek & Roman Galleries, 15 years after the project was initiated. The galleries house art created between about 900 B.C. and the early fourth century A.D., highlighting the evolution of Greek art in the Hellenistic period and the arts of southern Italy and Etruria. Natural light from skylights and arched windows of the main atrium made photography of the displays easier when we visited the galleries earlier this afternoon. Shown above are images I made of some of the astonishing displays - a marble statue of a youthful Hercules (A.D. 69-98), a sarcophagus (tomb)decorated with forty human and animal figures carved in high relief. The central figure inthe sarcophagus is that of the god Dionysos seated on a panther. He is surrounded by larger standing figures of sturdy youthswho represent the four Seasons. Other prominent displays that I found fascinating are the beautiful glass bottles, the bronze Etruscan chariot from the 6th century BC and fresco panels from the bedroom of Boscoreale. It is truly amazing to see these works that are among the most complete to survive from antiquity.


Adam "Hangman" Page has long been hyped as the next in a long line of Ring of Honor breakout stars. Diehard fans could see it as far back as his days as a young boy in the "Decade" under the tutelage of BJ Whitmer and Jimmy Jacobs in 2014. Others sensed his star potential when he joined the new-look Bullet Club in May 2016, allowing the 26-year-old to stop mysteriously calling out sick every Friday and finally quit his high school teaching gig. Now, punctuated by a career-defining past four months, you don't need to be a hardcore fan to see it -- Page is already a star.

In March, the matchup of former young boys between Page and Jay White at Strong Style Evolved for the IWGP UnitedStates title showed just how far both competitors have come and how much further they're willing to go. In April, Page's show-stealing match against the dynamic Kota Ibushi at Supercard of Honor proved his ability to seamlessly adapt to different styles on the fly. In May, Page's Bullet Club battle against Kenny Omega at Dontaku showcased a ruthless side to his in-ring approach in an old-fashioned, bloody brawl. That aggression came in handy when Page brought out the thumbtacks in a hardcore battle with Punishment Martinez for the ROH TV title at Best in the World in June. And on Saturday, Page will have plenty more opportunities to add to his singles resume when he competes in his first match at the 28th edition of the G1 Climax


in an interview with ESPN in March.

"That was fun because it was like, 'Now it's Adam Page's turn to step up,'" Nick Jackson added.

Adam Page's journey to stardom was assisted by a popular storyline in "Being The Elite" RING OF HONOR/James Musselwhite

Being the Elite was in need of a memorable storyline when Adam Cole, the Bullet Club's leader stateside, left for WWE in May of 2017. Coincidentally, Page started going by the "Hangman" moniker, a nickname he adopted from Luke Gallows, to differentiate his shared first name from the more proven and well known Cole. Losing a talent with the reputation of Cole -- the only three-time ROH world champion and a performer with a mic presence and natural charisma well beyond his years -- was a majoras they tried to locate their kidnapped friend. War Machine, Hurricane, X-Pac, Ricochet, and even Glacier were among those making cameos posing the question, "Where's Hangman?" The mystery was answered when Nick Jackson's psychic powers (anything is possible in the world of Being the Elite) revealed that Page was being held hostage in a dark room tied up to a chair in front of a TV playing WWE programming on loop -- ala "A Clockwork Orange". Even though this was all part of "Being the Elite" storyline, the Bullet Club were close to the vest about Page's whereabouts. ROH played their part by keeping Page off television and turning down interview requests to further the angle.

"I couldn't tell you how many people emailed me while I was missing,"


Page laughed.

After weeks of being AWOL, Page escaped and ran out to the ring with duct tape over his mouth midmatch at Death Before Dishonor in September of 2017. He was able to pull off a diving moonsault to the outside onto the Briscoes with his hands tied while wearing jeans and cowboy boots. The moment elicited the loudest reaction of the night from the many ROH fans who keep up with "Being the Elite", something ROH capitalizes on by crossing over angles into their own storylines. Page was no longer just the Young Bucks' tag-team partner -- he was now the most popular character on Being the Elite.

"We knew all of [the other Bullet Club members] are there, Page is new. Lets get Page over," Matt Jacksonhelped more than anything in my career."

Adam Page graduated college at 19 with film making aspirations. RING OF HONOR/James Musselwhite

In a lot of ways, Page was destined to succeed on "Being the Elite" before he even started wrestling.

Page was a naturally gifted student growing up -- a kid who could study on his way to school and ace tests others couldn't after pulling all-nighters. He finished fourth in a class of about 500 students in high school, giving him enough credits to enter college with junior standing. Page attended Virginia Tech as a communication major with the aspirations of one day working in the film industry, a passion that was sparked after making two full-length films with his friends in high school. However, he realized after his first


year of learning more about the industry that working in Hollywood didn't have the same appeal as making movies with his closest buddies. He then decided to finish school after his sophomore year, earning his degree two years early and walking at his college graduation at just 19-years old. Little did he know that several years later those skills would bolster his wrestling career.

"I didn't realize that [making Hollywood movies] didn't just mean messing around with your friends and making jokes and filming them and putting together little videos," Page said. "Somehow, in wrestling, that's what I ended up doing. Making these stupid little 10-minute videos and joking around and it's worked."

Adam Page G1 Climax 28 Schedule Date City Opponent Location Saturday, July 14 Tokyo Bad Luck FaleScurll's highly entertaining "Complicated" montage. Lately, Page has been more focused on his on-screen persona as he's front and center in another high-profile storyline with controversial indy wrestler Joey Ryan.

You'll have to watch the show to find out what led to this unique feud (trust me, it's worth it), but the end result left Ryan dead in his hotel room in Japan, opening up an investigation into his murder that has been full of twists and turns. The rivalry reached its breaking point when the "Being the Elite" crew showed up unannounced at Ryan's Bar Wrestling promotion in Baldwin Park, California before ROH's 16th Anniversary show in Las Vegas in March. The Bucks, who live in California, were only a short drive away, but Page had to rent


beyond his work on "Being the Elite." Page has always been a bright spot in his tag-team matches alongside the Bucks, Cody, and Scurll, but as singles competitor he's proven to be on another level. His peers have taken notice.

Page on heading to G1 Climax Before Page makes a run at the ROH title, he's ready to turn even more heads when he competes at this year's G1 Climax. Only Jay White (25), is younger among the 20-man field. "It's a huge deal. It's the most prestigious tournament in all of wrestling. To be one of the few people included in it is huge for me. I've been wrestling in New Japan for two years and I've had several singles matches. I'll have more singles matches during theof Fairfield University students by providing opportunities to challenge them to make a meaningful difference for others. It is a pledge to strengthen the University’s core mission to develop the creative intellectual potential of its students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility.

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"The Center provides students with hands-on experiences in local, national and global contexts, to support the education and formation of “men and women for and with others” by creating opportunities for responsible citizenship, fostering solidarity, and cultivating passion for progress towards a more just and equitable world”

Fairfield University led the foundation of the Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network (JUHAN) in 2006 --a collaborative initiative among Jesuit Universities across the globe which unites studentsto educate them raise awareness about pressing humanitarian issues and to engage them in implementing response strategies for national and global crises and disaster relief efforts.

Through Academic Service Learning and JUHAN, 55 faculty have developed more than 85 courses that integrate academic content with applied and experiential learning serving over 3,500 students. Sustained partnerships have been developed with over 35 community-based organizations around the globe to support ongoing, engaging experiences for students to put their knowledge into action in support of social good. Additionally, the Center engages over 30 students each year in annual visits to the United Nations and Washington, D.C.

In the next ten years Center seeks to:•Provide every Fairfield University undergraduate with hands-on experiences in local, national and/or global contexts in order to expand his or


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The Center was founded to be a catalyst for multidisciplinary research on critical social issues, particularly those that resonate with the priorities of the Society of Jesus such as migration and the displacement of persons; education of women and girls; and promotion of peace and human rights.

The Center has attracted funding from high profile funders such as Carnegie Corporation and the Ford, Teagle, Wabash and Hagedorn Foundations, to support research on critical issues such as migration, demonstrating growing nationalrecognition and program efficacy.

Recognized as a major contributor to the national debate on migration policy, the Center has successfully led research projects that provide insight to the nuanced challenges for undocumented students in higher education and is helping to shape a new model for constructive dialogue on contentious issues within a faith-based framework.

In the next ten years Center seeks to become a go-to resource for socially-engaged, interdisciplinary research on underexplored, but critical topics of national and global importance, including:•The long-term impact of supportive practices in higher education on undocumented students in the U.S.•The emerging crises of unaccompanied minors seeking to come to the United States, including their reasons for leaving their homes.•Improving education and employment opportunities for women around the world with an initial focus on India. The


2011 National Census in India revealed an alarming sex ratio imbalance between girls and boys which is impeding economic growth, and resulting in social and political tensions and violence against women. The CFPL seeks to launch the second phase of Impact India 2021: Elevating the Value of Women and Girls in Society that will study the familial attitudes about education for girls and employment for women in India.

"Fairfield on Wall Street, another innovate program founded by the CFPL, brings Fairfield University’s young alumni working in financial services into community with one another and engages them in constructive reflection on the spiritual and ethical impact of their Jesuit education on their practice as professionals.

The Center is also actively involved in promoting inter-faith activities on campus through helping to organizeand sponsor inter-faith dialogues and events which promote awareness and celebrate a diversity of beliefs.”

In the next ten years Center seeks to:•Strengthen and grow efforts to develop and facilitate public discussions on current social issues related to the Center’s work such as humanitarian action, civic development, and the role of faith in public life.•Continue to develop a vibrant inter-faith dialogue amongst students to promote deeper appreciation of Catholic Social Thought and an understanding of other faith traditions and to make the Center a hub for all belief traditions to interact.

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In February 2013, the presidents of 25 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States issued a statement declaring Jesuit schools are morally committed environments where students are inspired to understand and address issues of justice, fairness and a preferential option for those whom society has marginalized, including those living without authorization in the United States.

The Scholarship Fund for Undocumented Students at the Centerfor Faith & Public Life was established with the generosity of two alumni in the Class of 1978 to provide direct financial aid to students registered at Fairfield University who are not legal residents of the United States, and as such, do not qualify for federal financial assistance because of a prohibition under law. The Fund is administered by the Office of Admission at Fairfield University in accordance with established policies and procedures for student financial aid. Recipients must demonstrate high academic achievement, good character and financial hardship. The students and their families will be made aware that the scholarship they have received was awarded by the Scholarship Fund for Undocumented Students or specific donors, as appropriate. Donors will receive annual reports summarizing the activity and expenditures. At


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CFPL Friends join with the Center for Faith & Public Life by making annual gifts to sponsor:•$5,000 – Annual current use scholarship for an undocumented student or underwrite the CFPL’s annual trip to the United Nations•$2,500 – Development of a new Service Learning course•$1,500 – Service Learning Associate leadership experience for one student for one academic year•$1,000 – International Service Learning experience for one student or a year-long JUHAN Student Fellowship•$750 – Service Learning Associate leadership experience for one student for one semester
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The invention relates generally to photography, and more particularly to a camera with a self-timer that is otherwise referred to as a delayed action shutter release or delayed action device.
Film and cameras that are all in one, commonly referred to as disposable single-use or one-time-use cameras, have become well known. The one-time-use camera is a simple point-and-shoot type camera comprising a conventional film cartridge within a cartridge receiving chamber in a main body part, an unexposed film roll prewound from the film cartridge onto a film supply spool within a film supply chamber in the main body part, a film-exposing backframe opening between the cartridge receiving and film supply chambers in the main body part, a fixed-focus taking lens, a film metering mechanism with a rotatably supported meteringto the front cover part to make the main body part light-tight. A decorative cardboard outer box or label at least partially covers the front and rear cover parts and has respective openings for the taking lens, etc.
After a picture is taken with the one-time-use camera by manually depressing the shutter release button, the photographer manually rotates the thumbwheel in a film winding direction to similarly rotate the film winding spool inside the film cartridge. This winds an exposed frame of the filmstrip from the backframe opening into the film cartridge and advances an unexposed frame of the filmstrip from the unexposed film roll to the backframe opening. The rewinding movement of the filmstrip the equivalent of slightly more than one frame width rotates the metering sprocket in


engagement with the filmstrip to decrement the exposure counter wheel to its next lower-numbered indicia and to pivot a metering lever into engagement with the thumbwheel in order to prevent further manual rotation of the thumbwheel in the film winding direction. Manually depressing the shutter release button to take another picture pivots the metering lever out of engagement with the thumbwheel to permit renewed rotation of the thumbwheel in the film winding direction. When the maximum number of exposures available on the filmstrip have been made and the filmstrip is completely wound into the film cartridge, the one-time-use camera is given to a photofinisher who breaks away a cover door portion of the rear cover part from the main body part and removes the film cartridge with theToday, March 8 is International Women's Day – a global day celebrating the economic, political, and social achievements of women past, present, and future. It is a day to recognize women's achievements and acknowledge the challenges they continue to face in the quest for gender equality.

The roots of International Women’s Day go back to the labor movements of the 1900s in North America and across Europe, but since then, it has taken on a global, international focus – especially since 1977, when the United Nations General Assembly invited Member States to recognize March 8th as an annual UN Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace.

While we celebrate the milestones and achievements of all women, we want to highlight one particular woman who has made an impact in her


country as the Prime Minister of Iceland, Leader of the Left Green Movement and the only ruling Green PM in the world, Katrín Jakobsdóttir.

Jakobsdóttir, Iceland’s second female prime minister, has made great strides strengthening Iceland’s policies to ensure gender equality – in a country that is already deemed the best in the world to be a woman. In 2018, Iceland became the first country in the world to make it illegal to pay men more than women for the same job.

The World Economic Forum published a piece written by Jakobsdóttir, called “How to build a paradise for women. A lesson from Iceland”. It is worth a read as it describes the ways that Iceland is still working towards building a country – and subsequently a world – wherewebsite

“The Blue Ray Beings are an ultra-sensitive empathic soul group like the Indigos that came from many different ascended planets and light realms to enlighten the genetic code of humanity and raise the God consciousness on Gaia. These Star Seeds are the lost ray of the Light Worker that work closely with the consciousness of Gaia and nature.

By being born in unhealthy dysfunctional families their 1st mission in transmuting the damaged genetics in raising the DNA code to light is accomplished, as they are innate transformers and alchemist having the violet fire within their field. The main aura colours of a Blue Ray are variable shades of Blue, ranging from aqua to darker blues, always having traces of violet. This is one of the reasons many Blue Rays


The Edge ExPlay panel: Street Fighter IV’s Focus Attack

EDGE - Street Fighter uses six buttons, as I’m sure you all know. Two rows of three, with light, medium and heavy punches on the top, and kicks on the row below. When I was growing up playing Street Fighter II, I only ever pressed one of those buttons at a time. As time went on – and as Capcom settled into that groove of near-endless iteration, something like 14 games in as many years – that changed.
(Arcade, PS3, Street Fighter IV, Xbox 360)Looking at the World South of Miami: Palmetto Bay, Cutler Bay, Pinecrest, South Miami and Miami-Dade County.

PB: Where Politics is Dog Eat Dog

by SDM

Eventually this blog will move on from the dog barking ordinance, we promise.

But before we leave this story, SDM wants to bring our readers up to speed on the Who Shot John.

While most Palmetto Bay residents go about their sometimes humdrum lives, other residents involve themselves in blood feuds with their neighbors. (Think: Councilwoman Joan Lindsay and Palmer Trinity School.)

As these feuds escalate, other neighbors are dragged in. Some are forced and others willingly pick sides. Sometimes these feuds become so intractable or even dangerous that the village administration or police are dragged into the melee.

In the case of the barking dogs, SDM concludes that


Claim: Someone once wrote a check on the side of a cow, and the bovine check was accepted and cashed by the bank.

FALSE

Origins: The story of the check written on the side of a cow is so widespread that major banks reportedly make reference to it in pamphlets given out to new depositors (as an example of some of the unusual things people have used as checks).

Nonetheless, it’s a completely fabricated tale, and it springs straight from the adventures of one Albert Haddock, the fictitious and fanciful creation of British writer A.P. Herbert.

Herbert’s book Uncommon Law was first published in 1935. Herbert himself was called to the English Bar but never practiced, choosing another career path instead. He was a regular contributor to Punch for more than fiftyyears and the author of eight novels. He became a member of Parliament in 1935 and fought successfully for the reform of many licensing, divorce, and obscenity laws.

Okay, now you know a bit about the author. As for his wondrous creation, Albert Haddock, here’s a bit from the introduction to Uncommon Law:

Albert Haddock made his first public appearance in Punch about 1924. I have always understood that I invented him, but he has made some disturbing escapes into real life. The first of the first series of Misleading Cases shown by the BBC on television in 1967 was No. 32 “Board of Inland Revenue v. Haddock” where Haddock, in payment of income tax, made out a cheque on a cow and led it to the office of the


Collector of Taxes. Some weeks later I received a spacious cutting from an American newspaper (the Memphis Press-Scimitar ) headed: Albert Haddock made his first public appearance inabout 1924. I have always understood that I invented him, but he has made some disturbing escapes into real life. The first of the first series ofshown by the BBC on television in 1967 was“Board of Inland Revenuewhere Haddock, in payment of income tax, made out a cheque on a cow and led it to the office of the Collector of Taxes. Some weeks later I received a spacious cutting from an American newspaper (the) headed: A CHECK CAN BE WRITTEN ON A COW The article made not the slightest reference to me, my work, or the BBC, but used asKentucky. Since the venue — Fort Harrod — was a few hours away from his home town of Lexington (and, well, because it paid about $300 an hour), Correll signed up immediately.Unbeknownst to him, there was no script for this ordeal. A few weeks before the event was scheduled, he caught wind that he’d been required to write a monologue for Jim Harrod, the famed man he was slated to portray in front of a group of elementary school students. Rather than offloading the task to another willing actor, Correll assured the event staff he’d be all over it, no problem.The day of the performance, Correll ended up getting lost en route to the venue. He showed up about 15 minutes late and stepped out of his car


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by another officer, Douglas Ernst. Phillips discovered a large amount of graffiti on "the wall," some of which had just been sprayed. The graffiti which had just been sprayed consisted of black and yellow paint. Several spray paint cans were in the area in which Danny H. and the young man had been standing. One of the cans had fresh black paint along its outside edge. The freshly painted black graffiti included the words "fuck school," and "die." When Phillips first observed Danny H, Danny H. was about two feet from the vandalized wall, and about two feet from the "black spray paint" can. There were fingerprints on the back of the can.
After being detained, Danny H. denied any wrongdoing and claimed that he and his companion wereon the trestle "because they were waiting for a friend. He didn't show up." Officer Ernst observed fresh black paint on Danny H.'s hands.
Following his arrest, Danny H. admitted to Officer Ernst that he and his friend had picked up spray cans that had been left on the trestle and Danny H. had spray painted words on the north and south sides of the trestle. Danny H. spray painted the words "Die Most," "Die," "Echo," and "BP." Echo was Danny H.'s Baldwin Park gang moniker, but he no longer associated with that gang. Danny H. said he wrote "Die Most" "on behalf of his friend.

2. Defense Evidence.

In defense, Danny H. testified his friend did all the spray painting, and that he was "just standing there watching and sitting


reveal that the Legislature, in enacting that section, was seeking to address widespread problems resulting from the commission of vandalism upon government and privately owned property alike.
An analysis by the Ways and Means Committee prepared for a June 17, 1981 hearing, and pertaining to Assembly Bill 1675 as amended May 6, 1981, comments that the bill "prohibits possession of aerosol paint containers by persons under 18 for the purpose of defacing property while on any public street or alley." (Assem. Com. on Ways and Means, Analysis of Assem. Bill 1675 (1981-1982 Reg. Sess.) as amended May 6, 1981, italics added.) The italicized language suggests a limited scope of places affected by the bill.
However, a second comment only two sentences after the first comment states, "The proposed measure respondsthat this last statement referred to the problem of the visibility of spray paint vandalism, and neither of the above two quoted statements indicates that the proponents were concerned solely with vandalism to government-owned property, as opposed to private property.
Indeed, the committee file of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary contains a background information form pertaining to Assembly Bill 1675, and the form was prepared for, and submitted to, the committee. The form was apparently filled out by the City of Los Angeles. The form, under the section entitled "Purpose," asks, "What problem or deficiency under existing law does the bill seek to remedy?" The reply states, "Graffiti, in the Los .Angeles area is still a serious problem. This measure is drafted so that it will not interfere


with the legitimate use of paints, but will make it more difficult for individuals to deface public/private properties." (Sen. Com. on Judiciary, Background Information Form re: Assem. Bill 1675 (1981-1982 Reg. Sess.) as amended May 6,1981, p. 1, italics added.) Following additional amendments, Assembly Bill 1675 was, on September 19, 1981, enrolled and sent to the Governor. (Assem. Bill 1675 (1981-1982 Reg. Sess.) as amended September 15, 1981; 1 Assem. Final Hist. (1981-1982 Reg. Sess.), p. 1126.)[19]
Various legislative documents confirm that the enrolled Assembly Bill 1675 was intended to address the widespread impact of graffiti on public and private property alike. A letter from the City Council Of The City of Los Angeles to the Governor, dated September 18, 1981, stated, "Assembly Bill 1675 is an attempt toalleviate the increasing problem of graffiti caused by the use of spray paint cans by minors." The letter later stated, "The ever-increasing problem of graffiti caused by the use of spray paint cans by minors is evident throughout Los Angeles. Governmental entities and private property owners, as a *231 consequence, are faced with the expense of eradicating the graffiti and restoring the property damaged by the vandals. The City of Los Angeles' budget in 1978 was over $600,000 to eradicate the graffiti from public structures and certain private structures if the graffiti is obnoxious." (City Council of the City of Los Angeles, letter to Governor Brown (1981-1982 Reg. Sess.) Sept. 18, 1981, italics added.)[20] The letter later stated, "The City of Los Angeles feels that Assembly Bill 1675


vandalism with spray paint is a widespread problem causing thousands of dollars in damages each year. However, the most serious use of paint is by youth gangs to establish their territory. These individuals will literally fight and die over their monikers." (Governor's Office, Enrolled Bill Report on Assem. Bill 1675 (1981-1982 Reg. Sess.) Sept. 24, 1981.) The report also noted that the provisions of the proposed section 594.1 were "broad."[22] (Ibid.) (On October 1, 1981, Assem. Bill 1675 was approved by the Governor and, the next day, it was chaptered by the Secretary of State as Statutes 1981, chapter 1125.) (1 Assem. Final Hist. (1981-1982 Reg. Sess.), p. 1126.)
The above legislative analyses, reports, records, and correspondence, part of the legislative history of section 594.1, as enacted in 1981,similar to the phase "public highway, street, alley, or way" in proposed subdivision (e). This in turn suggests that the latter phrase also referred to places over which a government entity had jurisdiction. But if so, this further suggests that the phrase "public place" in proposed subdivision (e), also referred to a place over which a government entity had jurisdiction. On the other hand, the phrase "or other public place" in proposed subdivision (e), was not found in the proposed subdivision (d), and, therefore, was not listed in proposed subdivision (d), as one of the places over which the government had jurisdiction. This fact suggests that the Legislature, by adding that phrase to proposed subdivision (e), intended to denote a place over which the government did not necessarily


regarding the requirement that a person intend to deface. (Assem. Bill 1675 (1981-1982 Reg. Sess.) as amended August 19, 1981; 1 Assem. Final Hist. (1981-1982 Reg. Sess.), p. 1126.) An analysis of the Senate Democratic Caucus, and pertaining to Assembly Bill 1675 as amended August 19, 1981, lists the City of San Diego and the "Parks and Recreation Department" as "[proponents." (Sen. Democratic Caucus, Analysis of Assem. Bill 1675 (1981-1982 Reg. Sess.) as amended August 19, 1981, p. 1.) The bill was later amended on Sept. 15, 1981. (Assem. Bill 1675 (1981-1982 Reg. Sess.) as amended September 15, 1981; 1 Assem. Final Hist. (1981-1982 Reg. Sess.), p. 1126.) The September 15, 1981 amendments affected the proposed § 594.1, subdivision (d), but not (e). (Language in the former proposedFriday, May 27, 2016

Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo Addo, the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) beat off competition from the likes of former Presidents Kufuor and Rawlings, Dr. Bawumia, Dr. Paa Kkwesi Nduom, Nana Konado Agyeman Rawlings and most importantly his major contender in the upcoming November elections to emerge as the 4th most influential personality in Ghana in 2015.

This was contained in the current list of the first 100 most influential personalities released by e.TV Ghana, organizers of the annual Ghana’s Most Influential Awards. The list, which is made up of politicians, clergy, footballers, business people, entertainment personalities and journalists among others was released live on e.TV Ghana’s State of the Nation program.

This rating comes at a very crucial period in Ghana’s political space as the


top 100 Most Influential Ghanaian personalities who have contributed immensely to the growth of our society in various ways -as voted by the general public.

Public nominations which was opened in November last year were scored 40 percent and the GMI Committee consisting of editors, producers, and representatives of audit firm PKF Accountant & Business Advisors scored the remaining 60 percent.

The LA Palm Royal Beach Hotel will host the grand ceremony on June 30 where the various personalities will be awarded.

Below is the list of Most Influential Politicians and how they came up on GMI list:

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Renowned Lawyer, Ace Ankomah says that every applicable law was broken to ensure that Smartty’s Management and Productions Limited - the company at the centre of the bus branding saga –a curvy frame crowned with well-greased lips, as though they had just been dipped in frytol.

‘Such vain cycle; this love businesses’, the wind sighed, but they both were ear-clogged!

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Award winning rapper, Sarkodie, has been adjudged the most influential entertainment personality for the year 2015.

This was mentioned in the first 100 Ghana’s most influential (GMI) personalities list released by e.TV Ghana recently. The list, which is made up of politicians, clergy, footballers, business people, entertainment personalities and journalists among others was released live on e.TV Ghana’s State of the Nation program.

According to the annual research conducted by e.TV Ghana, Sarkodie –known in real life as Michael Owusu Addo, is the 25th Most Influential Personality in Ghana.

The ‘Take it Back’ singer beat the likes of Shatta Wale,


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Fleischer's 1993 autobiography, "Just Tell Me When to Cry", described his many difficulties with actors, writers and producers

Crack in the Mirror - The script was ostensibly written by producer Darryl F. Zanuck , but in his 1993 autobiography "Just Tell Me When to Cry", Richard Fleischer revealed that it was in fact ghost-written by Jules Dassin, who was unable to work openly in the American film industry at the time, because he was on the Hollywood blacklistI believe it’s at least in part because the ability to preserve a beverage for a time was rare and noteworthy.

A friend of mine lobbed an article (from a 2004 German archaeology publication) my way a few days ago, and it adds a new twist to the situation. They managed to strain-type the cereals in the grave – and found that the dominant strain of barley was of a variety native to Iraq. Prior to this dig, the strain had not been seen in continental Europe until ~1000 years later.

It seems plausible that the grain used for this beverage was being imported – or perhaps the beverage was imported, or perhaps this person was a traveler who made it to Persia and either had a new beverage or


Russians may use international payment cards along with national card

MOSCOW, October 23. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Thursday delaying the deadline for security deposit payments by Visa, MasterCard and other international card systems.

The document, which was approved by both houses of Russia’s parliament, was published on the government’s legal information web portal on Thursday.

Deputy Chairman of the Budget and Financial Market Committee at the Federation Council (the upper house of Russia’s parliament) Nikolay Zhuravlyov earlier said the law would extend the deadline for calculating and paying security deposits to the first and second quarters of 2015.

The senator said the delay in security deposit payments was needed for a transitional period to transfer international payment card processing to the operational center and the payment clearingThe Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has revealed that ancient human remains, which were discovered by a local hillwalker on a Mayo mountainside in 2016, date back as early as 3,600 BC.

The research found that the natural boulder chamber in which the remains were found was used for human burial practice through the Neolithic period.

A least 10 individuals - adults, teenagers and children - were placed in the chamber over a period of up to 1,200 years, according to the research. One of the adult bones dated to 3,600 BC, while a bone of a child skeleton dated to 2,400 BC.

In August 2016, local hillwalker Michael Chambers discovered a cave-like chamber among some large boulders on Ben Gorm Mountain in Newport, Mayo. He found human bones


scattered over the rock floor of the chamber and contacted gardaí in order to have them tested.

Once it had been determined that the remains were ancient, the National Monuments Service of the department, in consultation with the National Museum of Ireland, commissioned a rescue excavation, carried out by Dr Marion Dowd of IT Sligo.

Pit in the cave which contained human remains after the excavation.

The research has suggested that bodies were brought into the cave chamber and laid out in a pit. At some later stage, the skulls might have been deliberately broken as part of a complex burial ritual and the larger bones removed.

"Large pieces of quartz had been placed in and around the bones. When the radiocarbon dates came through it was very exciting. Not only werethe bones Neolithic, but the dates showed the site had been used for over 1,000 years," Dowd said.

Dowd said that it was not a burial site as such, but a ritual place where bodies were placed to decompose. "Only a very small proportion of each skeleton was found, with the majority of bones apparently deliberately removed. This discovery indicates highly complex processing of the dead," she said.

Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan praised the local hillwalker for reporting his find. "This is a fascinating archaeological discovery and I want to thank the community of hillwalkers for reporting it to us. Such vigilance is extremely important to us in helping to protect and understand our archaeological heritage," Madigan said.


As anthropologist Alan Merriam wrote in 1964, “Music is interrelated with the rest of culture: it can and does shape, strengthen and channel social, political, economic, linguistic, religious and other kinds of behaviour”.

Traditional songs not only consist of melody and rhythm but they also carry cultural and ethical values peculiar to a given social group.

With this idea of keeping ‘music’ as an integral part of the Sikh history and culture, in 2007 Bhai Baldeep Singh founded the Anad Conservatory, which is not simply a music school but a centre of education with a traditional holistic approach to pedagogy.

The Anad Conservatory could be somehow compared to Tagore’s Shantiniketan, a pioneering educational project in which music finds its bonds with oral and written literature, visual arts, architecture and ecology.

But whatand maintain the intangible treasure of the medieval Gurbani Sangeet within the tangible heritage of the historical qila.

In the Anad Foundation website, its founder affirms:

“This will inspire a sense of history, pride and cultural dignity among students and faculty members. The fortress of Sultanpur Lodhi, thus, would become the new source of cultural renaissance of the historical and the geographical Punjab. […] activate teaching programmes and training facilities in the fields of conservation and restoration: architecture and landscape conservation, restoration of musical instruments, ancient crafts, and other antiquities.”

One of the two rooms hosts also a laboratory in which traditional instruments like taus, saranda and rabab are handcrafted according to the original Sikh Gurus’ models.

To fulfil the initial desire to hear Gurbani Sangeet played with the instruments of the


proper era, Bhai Baldeep Singh has started a huge project on traditional percussion and string instruments to revive their playing and hand-crafting techniques (and repertoires) as practiced by the Sikh Gurus. According to his research, 1949 was the last time when a musical instrument used in the Gurbani Sangeet tradition was made by Giani Harbhajan Singh Mistri of Hoshiarpur. In 1991, after an extensive research of three years for luthiers with the knowhow of making instruments originally used in the practice of Gurbani, Sufi and Bhakti Marga Sangeet, Bhai Baldeep Singh traced Giani and learnt from him the art of carving taus, saranda, rabab and dilruba. Now he teaches the art of instrument making to the new generation of Gur-Sikhs.

During an official visit to the Anad Conservatory in2013, I had the opportunity to see the musical instrument laboratory, and I also attended a few vocal and instrumental classes that were given by Bhai Baldeep Singh and by Parminder Singh Bhamra to unprivileged children from the nearest villages. It was a meaningful experience, witnessing how children enjoyed learning through the traditional pedagogy, and how fast they were able to perform intricacies with their voices and with their drums.

I have seen flowers blooming among the ruins of the medieval site.

I remember that we were surrounded by cops, walking in and around the qila, as the site is also the seat of the local police station. Having a cultural centre side by side with a police station seemed a weird combination, but I hoped that children would learn


root of Sikhism, and with music not as a profession but as part of the spiritual and daily life. There is much to re-construct about the Sikh intangible musical heritage, since the Sikh culture has undergone a “slow and systematic cultural violence” (to quote Zižek, 2008) that has evened out the peculiar features of its medieval tradition.

In about three decades, with the efforts of the members of the Conservatory various possible links with the older generations doing an extensive fieldwork have been researched and documented. In the long chain of the maryada, each master is a fundamental link that connects the Sikh Gurus’ time to the present. Like a weaver interlacing the past with the present, Anad Conservatory played an essential role in the revival movement of GurbaniHeadlines

Drury, Zuccarello returning for showdown with Devils

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Dave Lozo
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Desperate for a victory, the Rangers are turning to their captain for a shot of adrenaline.

Chris Drury, who has been out since Feb. 5 with a knee injury, will make his return against the Devils on Saturday afternoon. He's been practicing with the team, and coach John Tortorella felt he was ready.

"Dru is Dru. He's been wanting to go for a little bit here," Tortorella said. "I'm not sure exactly how much he'll play. We'll see. He'll take some faceoffs, he'll kill some penalties. He gives us a little bit of juice as far as him coming back. Our captain's back in the lineup. We'll see how it goes as we proceed in the game."

Tortorella, who usually is very forthcoming


with line combinations pregame, was more evasive this time when asked who Drury would be playing with.

"Not sure," Tortorella said, before being a bit more honest. "I am sure, but I'm not telling you."

Drury's season has been marred by injuries. He dealt with a broken finger throughout the preseason, then broke that same finger in a different spot in the third game of the season. It cost him 29 games, and he's only played in 23 games this season.

Drury has zero goals and 4 assists, but his presence could be the difference in a game the Rangers are treating as a must-win.

"I think he's well-respected. Dru's not a holler guy in the room. He leads by example," Tortorella said. "I think when you look at him, how hardhe's worked at coming back with a chronic knee here, I think that just adds something to your locker room. He's just so well-respected by his teammates. He's been known to make big plays at big times in big games. We'll see where it goes as we start playing the game."

Along with Drury, shootout specialist Mats Zuccarello is back in the lineup after he was sent down to the AHL's Connecticut Whale on April 1. Last season, the Rangers lost their final game of the regular season to the Philadelphia Flyers in a shootout, one that saw Olli Jokinen get stopped by goaltender Brian Boucher to end it.

"Let me make sure you understand -- Emmy has given us some really good minutes," Tortorella said. "I thought he stepped


In the Acknowledgement section of the paper, "This study was supported in part by United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) Academic Research Enhancement Award 1R15GM114739 and National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS) 5P20GM103429, United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) HHSF223201510172C through Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) BAA-15-00121 and Arkansas Science and Technology Authority (ASTA) Basic Science Research 15-B-23 and 15-B-38" should read as

"This study was partially supported by United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) Academic Research Enhancement Award 1R15GM114739 and National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS) 5P20GM103429, Arkansas Science and Technology Authority (ASTA) Basic Science Research 15-B-23 and 15-B-38 and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), contract No. HHSF223201510172C and HHSF223201610111C. However, the information contained herein represents the position of the author(s) and notMONTREAL — Quebec’s provincially operated cannabis shops made $71 million in sales in their first year and sold the most cannabis in the country in terms of dollars and volume, but they still posted a $4.9-million loss to be covered by the provincial government.

The provincial cannabis corporation — known as the SQDC — said in a statement that the provincial government revenues from consumption and excise taxes totalled about $21.7 million between June 12, 2018 and March 30.

The first stores in the Quebec network opened on Oct. 17, the day recreational marijuana became legal in the country.

However, the stores had to reduce opening hours, plagued by supply challenges faced by all provinces no matter what business model they were employing.

By the end of the fiscal year, Quebec stores


OTTAWA – Canada's grim job market will continue into next year even though the economy should begin to bounce back this autumn, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney says.

"2009 will be a difficult year in the Canadian job market," Carney told reporters today after releasing his latest assessment of Canada's economy.

"People are going to lose their jobs. The unemployment rate (6.6 per cent) is going to rise. And it's going to take longer to find a job. That is the unfortunate reality of a recession."

Carney said the economy will begin to lift out of the current recession in the July-through-September period, but improvements in the job market will lag behind the overall recovery.

"There will still be a certain stress in the labour market" even after business conditions startimproving, he said.

"For average Canadians, they'll be seeing the effects of the recovery at the beginning of next year."

But Carney said the central bank has recognized the worsening job picture and taken that into account in its efforts to lower its trend-setting overnight interest rate — now at 1 per cent — to rekindle economic growth.

Carney also said his forecast of a rebound in the economy later this year is partially based on expectations of a large economic stimulus package in next Tuesday's federal budget.

"We do expect a substantial fiscal package in Canada," he said.

While declining to specifically discuss what might be in the budget, he suggested the Bank's forecast has factored in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's pledge to boost the economy with a package of spending and


the aortic valve. Prior to opening the ascending aorta or atrium a cold cardioplegia solution is pumped into the aorta by means of a small cannula placed in the ascending aorta below the aortic cross clamp. This is called antegrade cardioplegia delivery and results in arrest of the heart. This is often followed by a second delivery of cardioplegia solution delivered by a cannula inserted into the coronary sinus, the venous drainage vessel of the coronary. The retrograde delivery of cardioplegia flows first through the coronary veins, the myocardium and the passes into the coronary arteries hence through the coronary sinuses into the aorta. The solution exits the aorta via the retrograde cardioplegia catheter. Cardioplegia delivery often in 500 cc boluses is delivered approximately every 20 to 30end and being curved adjacent the distal end, said cannulated body being constructed and configured to define a first curved lumen having a proximal end and a distal end and a second lumen having a proximal end and a distal inlet formed in the cannulated body such that when in use, the inlet is proximate the termination of flow in the aorta of blood from the heart and means for causing the occluder to expand or to contract. The surgical procedure is performed, the flow of blood from the venous system into the heart is restored and the heart is restarted, pumping blood into the ascending aorta. Blood pumped by the heart is removed from the aorta through the inlet in the cannulated body to remove air or


other emboli. Once the air or other emboli are removed, the cannulated body is removed from the ascending aorta and the incision closed.
Briefly, as a device, the invention is a cannulated body having a proximal end for, in use, residing outside a blood vessel and a distal end for, in use, residing inside a blood vessel, the cannulated body being curved adjacent the distal end, an expandable occluder secured around the cannulated body proximate the distal end thereof, the cannulated body being constructed and configured to define a first curved lumen having a proximal end and a distal end, and a second lumen having a proximal end and a distal inlet formed in the cannulated body adjacent the proximal side of the occluder.21 September 2017 in Tashkent Pediatric medical Institute, organized the event under the slogan "Peace is the basis of the welfare of the people."

The event was dedicated to "International day of peace."

The event was attended by students, as well as the poetess, the member of the Union of writers of Uzbekistan, Kavsar Turdieva, Professor E. A. Tursunov and Lieutenant Colonel of the medical service in the resignation of Karamat Bakiyev.

The students participated with songs and poems devoted to the homeland, the world.


Feminist writer Germaine Greer has been glitter-bombed at a book-signing today in New Zealand for her comments about trans women, including a 2009 column which said they ‘seem to us ghastly parodies’ and claimed being trans was a ‘delusion’.

The Queer Avengers group took exception to Greer’s brand of what it termed “transphobic feminism” and delivered the glitter in a move more often seen deployed on homophobic politicians in the US.

Germaine Greer unsuccessfully opposed the election of a trans woman to the staff at the women-only Newnham College, Cambridge in the 1990s and the group highlighted her opposition to regarding trans women as women.

In her 1999 book, The Whole Woman, she wrote: “Governments that consist of very few women have hurried to recognise as women men who believe thatDermatophilosis (Cutaneous streptothricosis) in Kafue lechwe (Kobus leche kafuensis).
Extensive dermatitis caused by Dermatophilus congolensis was identified in two kafue lechwe (Kobus leche kafuensis) in Lochinvar National Park of Zambia. The lesions were characterized by thickening of the skin, crusts, and nodfule formation. Almost all parts of the body were affected. Histologically there was an exudative dermatitis with acanthosis, parakeratosis, hyperkeratosis, and an exudate rich in neutrophils. This is the first known report of dermatophilosis in lechwe.


disrespects our flag, say, 'Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out, he's fired!"

What Trump doesn't get is that Kaepernick wasn't taking a knee because he was trying to disrespect our nation. It's because Kaepernick and others like him love this country and want it to live up to the ideals it was founded upon.

In fact, after Kaepernick began taking a knee last year, he explained that he was doing it to bring attention to the oppression of "black people and people of color" and cited the unjust killing of people of color by the police. But he added that he would stand for the national anthem once "there's significant change, and I feel that flag represents what it's supposed to represent."

This is thewords "divisive," Trump again made clear his contempt for freedom of expression. "Tell them (players) to stand!" he said.

JUST WATCHED How NFL teams responded to Trump during anthem Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH How NFL teams responded to Trump during anthem 02:26

Trump is demanding conformity and obedience over championing freedom of expression. That is the type of sentiment you expect to hear from a Third World dictator -- not the President of the United States of America. In a tweet Saturday morning, he revoked his invitation to the NBA champion Golden State Warriors to visit the White House.

Some believe that Trump is engaging in this fight as a ploy to distract the media and the public from the likely failure of the Graham-Cassidy health care bill and


the possible loss of the Trump-supported Republican candidate in the Alabama Republican senate runoff.

Maybe. But Trump's rejection of American values was on display long before this weekend.

As a candidate, Trump led a war on the American values of tolerance and pluralism. He demonized Mexican immigrants and stunningly called for a ban on Muslims from American soil. And as President, he rescinded DACA and pardoned Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a man who had been repeatedly accused of profiling Latinos.

Beyond that, Trump refused to denounce white supremacists -- both as a candidate in regards to David Duke's endorsement and as President in response to Charlottesville -- until he was called out by the media, the public and even some of his fellow Republicans. If he truly believed in the words enshrinedTuesday, August 12, 2008

Todd signs licensing deal in UK for new CD ARENA

Todd Rundgren's new album, "Arena" has been licensed to Cooking Vinyl for UK release on Monday 29th September (the album will be released in North America by Hi-Fi Recordings on Tuesday 30th September).

"We are delighted to be releasing Todd's new guitar rock album in the UK," says Cooking Vinyl MD, Martin Goldschmidt.

The album will be followed by a UK tour in November, with Rundgren playing dates at Manchester Academy 2 (Nov 6), Edinburgh Picture House (Nov 7), Norwich Waterfront (Nov 22) and London Kentish Town Forum (Nov 23).

Former Utopia bass guitarist, Kasim Sulton, is confirmed to play guitar, keyboards and sing vocals on Rundgren's forthcoming American and European "Arena" tours. Sulton, who recently was the musical


A gruyère from Switzerland has been chosen as the world’s best cheese in a global competition.

The World Champion Cheese Contest takes place every two years in Wisconsin, bringing together entries from 26 nations.

This year, Michael Spycher from Bern, Switzerland was awarded the top prize for his gruyère, beating a record-breaking 3,667 entries.

Spycher also took home the award in 2008.

The runner-up cheese was also Swiss: a hard cheese made from cow’s milk by Hardegger Kase AG.

In third place was a type of gouda cheese hailing from the Netherlands.

The competition is the largest of its kind in the world and sees 55 judges inspect the products, making assessments on scent, taste and texture.

Among the judges are cheese graders, cheese buyers, dairy science professors, and researchers.

In total, the judging panel includespeople from 19 nations and 14 states.

However, one judge along with 30 people from a university in Japan were unable to attend the competition at the last minute because they were not permitted to travel internationally due to coronavirus, the organisers said.

The number of people with coronavirus in the UK has tripled in the last three days, with 163 confirmed cases.


Pittsburgh airport was full of New York Giants fans Sunday night watching their football team lose to the Green Bay Packers. But these fans had bigger worries than their woeful football team. They were among the thousands stranded far from home thanks to flights that had been canceled or diverted.

Retailers will have to extend post-holiday sales for the next few weeks to move old inventory, said Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst for NPD Group. Credit: Todd Stone
The storm that walloped the East Coast the day after Christmas paralyzed air traffic, deterred shoppers from redeeming gift cards and returning that horrific holiday sweater from Grandma, snarled roads, shuttered offices and idled public transit in bustling business centers like Manhattan. It was largely a non-event for many ad agencies alreadyGroup. That traffic is primarily driven by gift-card redemption and returns, he added.

Retailers will have to extend post-holiday sales for the next few weeks to move old inventory, he said. With those extensions, it'll also be necessary to run more ad campaigns to promote those continued post-holiday discounts.

But NPD consumer-electronics analyst Steve Baker said he expected the snowstorm effect to be minimal on overall post-Christmas sales because the blizzard was a local phenomenon, and also because even in the affected areas, shoppers could either shop online or eventually dig out and return to stores a day or so after they had initially planned. He said that last year's pre-Christmas blizzard in New England and Mid-Atlantic states, while it did have an effect on sales the actual day of


see [after the flight cancellation], so we take in a lot of venting," she said.

One airline quite familiar with venting pulled out all the stops to be responsive in this travel crisis -- JetBlue, which in February 2007 suffered a PR disaster when 10 of its flights sat on the tarmac during a winter storm with hundreds of passengers stuck on the planes for up to 10 hours with little food and limited toilet usage.

At the time, CEO David Neelman said he was "mortified." But JetBlue came up with a Passenger Bill of Rights and survived the PR nightmare, in large part due to being far more proactive. For instance, from Sunday through early this afternoon, JetBlue had 36 tweets regarding the storm; American and United, by comparison,bringing more people in to handle the volume. This is almost an unprecedented storm, and couple that with holiday travel and it's a double whammy."

Even international airlines are feeling the pain as JFK International, Boston Logan and Philadelphia International were all closed -- or still are. "We're telling people flat out, don't come to the airport," British Airways spokesman John Lampl said. "At the same time, we're trying to re-book. Everybody just has to hunker down for 24 to 36 hours. It's just a matter of time before it's back to normal. It's just back luck that the storm happened around Christmas, when everybody is trying to return."

Mr. Lampl said BA was successful in getting some of its customers into local hotels, even in New York.

The airlines' loss


in many cases has become the railway's gain. One frustrated traveler decided she would take a train from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C. and then to New York. The roundabout train travel would still get her home to New York before her airline's next nearest flight could -- on Thursday.

If search is any indication of consumer sentiment, it looks like all people cared about Monday morning was travel. As of 9:00 a.m. Eastern time, the only non-travel or snow-related search term on Google's top 10 hot searches list was the e-commerce tech company " GSI Commerce," likely because it's CEO Michael Rubin appeared on a re-run of reality show "Undercover Boss" on Sunday night. New York's subway system MTA, New Jersey transit and other commuter rails dominated the top-ten.that hit London. Mr. Armano made the most of it, creating a Twitter hashtag "#armanogeddon" that friends used to send him support.

"After several days, canceled flights, long phone calls with airlines and numerous visits to London pubs as well as befriending other stranded visitors I made my way back to the states," he said in an email. "But the snow followed me here to New York," where he is visiting relatives.

"Many of my Edelman colleagues are stranded in cities across the country as now NYC airports are closed and my social-media friends have asked me to stay away from there cities in an effort to keep the snow away," he said.


to be vague and inconclusive now represent clear allusions and references to the subtlety of Final Fantasy VIII’s “obscured” meaning.

Who is the Sorceress Edea? What are her goals and motivation? Where do her powers come from? Why was Seifer in the parade with Edea when he was reported executed? Who was the girl (Ellone) that Squall and Quistis saw in the Garden training center? Who is Laguna and why did Squall, Selphie, and Zell all have the same dream about him? And, most importantly, who is Squall? Who were his parents? Why did they leave him at the orphanage? Where does he come from, and what would he have done with his life had he not died?

Uh huh. A dream, a fantasy, a vision, or whatever you wantto call it. The “dream” is basically an extension of the “your life flashes before your eyes” concept. The entire dream takes only a matter of seconds, but for Squall is passes in real time. For Squall, it’s about the endless possibilities he could have seen realized. Squall explores the questions that were raised on the first disc but he was not able to answer in his lifetime. These questions include, but are not limited to:

At the end of disc one, Squall and Friends face Edea on a parade float in Deling City. After the fight, when Edea seems defeated, she conjures an enormous ice shard and propels it through Squall’s chest. Squall stumbles back and falls off the platform. He sees Rinoa above, reaching to him as


only reason to kill Seifer is his apparent alignment with the Sorceress, which is never fully explained.

After disc one, the complexity of this situation becomes much simpler. The relationship Rinoa and Seifer had is never again mentioned, except by Seifer in the form of taunts during battle. Rinoa herself seems to have completely distanced herself from Seifer, and Seifer’s enemy status is never again questioned. Seifer began as a rather complex character, an enemy at times to Squall and Zell but still a friend in battle. He broke out of the Garden’s disciplinary wing to risk his life for Rinoa, who found his courage inspiring. After disc one he is a villain and his only goal appears to be serving the Sorceress. I personally expected Seifer to havehimself on a small rock island, isolated and helpless. He drops himself on the ground, exhausted. Then, upon catching a feather floating towards him, he finds himself where Rinoa is. He calls out her name, and she turns to face him. This is where the weird shit starts happening.

Rinoa turns to Squall, but her face is blurred. There’s a shot of Seifer as the movie cuts to the ballroom scene. Here we see Rinoa again, and again she turns towards the camera as she did in the ballroom scene on disc one. But she’s blurry and messed up again. The shot continues to repeat, and every time Rinoa’s face and form are blurred, and the effect seems to be getting worse each time. What is happening here?

It is


my belief that as Squall’s dream is coming to a close, he is starting to lose touch with his own memories. He is trying to picture Rinoa, the object of his fantasy, but he can’t quite remember the shape of her face. He is going over that moment in the ballroom, when he first saw her, again and again in his mind, focusing closer on her face and trying to see her the way that she was.

I have seen this specific visual symbolism once before, in Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind. In Eternal Sunshine, the protagonist, Joel, has his memory erased because he wants to forget his ex-girlfriend. But, in the course of the procedure, Joel realizes what he is losing and tries to hold on toout see the screaming crowd.

We see some shots of Rinoa floating in space, and then we’re back in the ballroom looking for Rinoa. Then there is another assortment of shots from throughout the first disc of the game. First we see the mechanical spider monster from the final exam in Balamb followed by a shot of each of the party members but Squall (Quistis, Zell, Rinoa, Selphie, and Irvine, in that order). The images of Quistis, Zell, and Selphie are from the final exam in Balamb, and the shot of Irvine is from his introductory fmv clip. This is the shot of Rinoa:

This frame was taken directly from the scene in which Squall was killed. Rinoa is turning to Squall, who has just been impaled.

We see some shots


in disc one, the image of Squall’s eye as he falls from the parade float.

At this point in the movie, and for the last few minutes as well, Squall’s life has literally been flashing before his eyes. I feel that there is a particular focus on the two main events of disc one: the final exam at Balamb and the encounter with Edea on the parade float. But of course the ballroom scene, which was of particular importance to Squall, is by far the most covered event in the first half of the ending fmv. However, as I’ve been mentioning throughout this section, there are also snippets of images from the latter half of the game, particularly Rinoa in space.

At the very end of this part of theNew house sales on the rise around the country, new data finds

With almost all major states recording a rise in sales for the month of September, the fall in new house sales has stopped, fresh data has found.

New house sales have increased by 1.1 per cent for the month of September, following two consecutive months of declines of 3 per cent, according to the latest edition of the HIA New Home Sales report.

However, Diwa Hopkins, economist at the HIA, noted that this was 4.6 per cent lower than September figure last year.

Across the major capital cities, new house sales were up in every major state, with the exception of Queensland.

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The largest sales rise was recorded in Victoria at 7.9 per cent. This was followed by 4 per cent


Franson and forwards Tyler Bozak, Joffrey Lupul, Mike Santorelli and Daniel Winnik.

Captain Dion Phaneuf and winger Phil Kessel were grouped under 'For Sale - but more likely in off-season' and David Clarkson - with five years left on his contract at $5.35 million a season - was tagged with the header, 'The Luongo Problem - His Contract Sucks.'

Under the heading 'Leafs still believe in...sort of,' Simmons lists goaltender Jonathan Bernier and Nazem Kadri, as the team still has to examine how they'll turn out.

From Blue And White To Blueshirt?

Larry Brooks of the New York Post wrote on Monday night that Santorelli, who hits the ice on Tuesday against the Rangers, would be a great fit with New York and acquiring him on the way out of the AirLochhead

Lochhead is a surname shared by several notable people, among them being:

 Alex Lochhead (born 1866), Scottish footballer
 Andy Lochhead, footballer
 Archie Lochhead, Scottish-American banker
Arthur Lochhead (1897–1966), Scottish footballer
 David Lochhead, theologian
 Doug Lochhead, football manager
 Kenneth Lochhead, painter
 Liz Lochhead, poet
Matty Lochhead (1884–1964), Scottish footballer
 Richard Lochhead, politician


The next project for Lily Collins is also professional: She stars in Brothers Grimm: Snow White alongside Julia Roberts. Interestingly, Lautner's Twilight costar Kristen Stewart will star in Snow White and the Huntsman, due for release around the same time.

Which will Lautner watch? "It's tough. I mean, my excuse is they're so different. I can root for them both," he said at the MTV Movie Awards.

"Kristen's going to be cool and edgy and dark. It's gonna be something new for her, and I think that's really exciting."What are the best books by Oscar Wilde? During his life, Wilde wrote at least 25 substantial works, and a number of them are certainly must-reads.

He was in so many ways the archetypal Irishman: witty and a compelling teller of stories - with a sometimes mischievous disregard for the rules. His books are a reflection of those personality trends and a unique insight into the thinking of this extraordinary Irishman.

Here are five that even those with a casual interest in Irish literature should read.

De Profundis

Dubbed, “one of the greatest love letters ever written”, De Profundis, was sent by Wilde to his former lover Lord Alfred Douglas. Although banned by the draconian prison regulations of the time from writing any more of the stories, plays, or poetry that had


shadow of his formerly exuberant self

During his two years languishing as a guest of Her Majesty he was addressed only by the number of his prison cell, C.3-3, and his days were characterized by mind-numbingly tedious work, solitary confinement, and the bone-chilling experience of witnessing the prison prepare for execution. The poem’s dedication is to Charles Thomas Wooldridge, the dead man.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Dorian the protagonist we learn enjoys "keenly the terrible pleasure of a double life". He is at once a low life murderer but also a member of the British upper class, able to flit from crime scene to high society event with ease.

Read more: Oscar Wilde’s 11 best quotes

Anyone with an interest in the concepts of beauty, wealth, and morality will find intrigue andlike Harry Potter, are read and enjoyed by people across the generations.

The main story relates to that of a prince who, once dead, is immortalized as a towering statue of his kingdom. Only from his perch above does, he see the suffering of his people and from beyond the grave, he sees to it that the poor are helped.

Many believe The Happy Prince is Wilde’s greatest work and it has been adapted for the stage, television, and radio again and again.

Read more: The beloved Irish treasure, the genius of Oscar Wilde

* Originally published in Sept 2017.


England’s main maths teacher training centre is to double its staffing and expand into the regions.

The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) publishes resources, provides professional development and produces papers on areas such as marking guidance, textbook design and assessment.

It also coordinates the government’s Maths Hubs, which are overseeing the roll-out of the Teaching for Mastery programme – the East Asian-style of teaching the subject.

Now the NCETM, which is managed by education services group Tribal in partnership with training charity MEI, is set to double the number of people it employs.

New maths jobs

It is advertising for a director of professional development leadership – a new role, which will involve setting up development and support for those who are already leading the education of thesubject in their area.

An assistant director (primary), an assistant director (secondary) and eight regional leads are also required by NCETM to support teachers across the country. All jobs will be home-based with extensive travel required.

The new posts, which are initially funded until July 2019, come in addition to other communications and business support jobs, meaning that the number of people employed at NCETM is set to increase from around 20 to 40.

There are 35 Maths Hubs in the programme overseen by the NCETM, each of which is led by a school or college.

As well as overseeing the mastery roll-out, the hubs are responsible for leading improvements in education in their area by offering free or subsidised training and information about local education activities.

Expansion work

In its latest newsletter, the


Maths Hubs programme says that the expansion of their work will include: a new programme for primary schools wanting to establish strong maths leadership, a significant increase in the scale of work done in early years and an expansion in the north of England, which may include creating new hubs.

The government recently announced that maths mastery will be expanded to a further 3,000 schools on top of the original £41 million of funding announced in July 2016 for 8,000 schools.

Charlie Stripp, director of NCETM, said: "These new streams of Government funding to support school maths education represent a welcome vote of confidence in the work of the NCETM and, more importantly, in the work of the 35 Maths Hubs across England.

"The number of teachers and schools participating inmid-2017.

ETP currently has ownership of the former Susser Holdings Corp. assets, including 663 Stripes and Sac-N-Pac convenience stores. ETP also owns the general partner of Sunoco LP, as well as subordinated units in Sunoco LP. In addition, ETP owns all of Sunoco Inc., including the Sunoco wholesale and retail businesses.

In total, ETP has 6,683 retail gasoline outlets, 1,258 of which are company operated. These c-stores and gas stations performed extremely well in ETP's first quarter that ended March 31.

Welch highlighted Stripes stores as turning in a particularly strong performance, except in the Texas Permian Basin region. This is likely due to recent lower gas prices. Still, the ETP executive noted that this one area of weakness was more than made up for by Stripes' strength in the Houston


artery formed by union of the left and right vertebral arteries and the internal ophthalmic, the caudal cerebral, the choroid, the median cerebral, the rostral cerebral arteries originated from the internal carotid artery. After giving off the medial cerebral artery, the right and left rostral cerebral arteries on every two sides divided into the lateral and medial twin branches and by union of the lateral branches the internal ethmoidal artery, and by union of the medial branches, the ramus extending to facies medialis cerebri were formed. The ramus extending to the facies medialis cerebri was anastomosed with the branch of the caudal cerebral artery on the back of the corpus callosum. The last part of the basilar artery gave the two branches running toward the right and leftNEW YORK — Crews, construction workers and transit agency officials are working to get the new Second Avenue subway line open by the end of year.

But don't expect them to give you an exact date.

At the New York City Sign Shop on Bergen Street in Brooklyn, workers have made 1,300 signs for the return of the W train on Nov. 7 from Astoria to Lower Manhattan. Some of those signs have already been placed on station platforms.

The Q, which runs to Astoria currently, will eventually service the new section of line on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Those signs for the Second Avenue Subway are being made. There are hundreds of items and tests required before the new section of line can open.

Transit officials have not ruled out opening a


portion of the new line by the end of the year. But they are also focusing on competing the entire project. Contractors will receive bonuses if their work is competed in time.

Tuesday morning, in front of a new plaza at 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney revealed her report card for the project.

She gave it an "A+" and expected the facilities to be ready by the end of this year.

MTA Committee and Board meetings are being held on Wednesday and Friday. The monthly update from staff and an independent engineer will be presented.

Since the late spring, the independent engineer has warned of an increasing risk that the project testing would not be completed.part of the country. Snow occurs every year, it can be snowing from October to April. In some years sleet can fall in September or May. The growing season lasts 202 days in the western part of the country and 169 days in the eastern part. Severe storms are rare in the eastern part of Lithuania and common nearer the coast.

The longest measured temperature records from the Baltic area cover about 250 years. The data show that there were warm periods during the latter half of the eighteenth century, and that the nineteenth century was a relatively cool period. An early twentieth century warming culminated in the 1930s, followed by a smaller cooling that lasted until the 1960s. A warming trend has persisted since then.

Lithuania experienced a drought


China. Plus: Would Christina ever run the Race with her new husband and Season 12 alum Azaria Azene?

Ron, how long did the Roadblock take you?Ron: I lost track of time, but I felt like it was a couple of hours. I took the wrong road and I over-thought. I took the wrong street and found one sadhu right on the riverbanks, which they called the Ghat, and then I said, "Oh, yeah, the holy men are generally by the holy river of the Ganges," so I traversed back and forth from one end of the Ganges to the other when I should've gone back to my original starting point and taken a different road.

Some other Racers worked together. Why didn't you pair up with anyone?Ron: Well, my downfallon The Amazing Race, they came in second place despite major communication issues. While they didn't make it to the final Pit Stop on Unfinished Business, the father-daughter team approached their "second-in-a-lifetime opportunity" with an emphasis on the journey rather than the finish line. After their elimination on Sunday's episode, Ron and Christina spoke with PEOPLE about the detour that did them in, enjoying the local cuisine, and what it was like for Ron to walk Christina down the aisle to her most important Pit Stop yet – the wedding altar! – where she married her fellow season 12 competitor Azaria Azene this spring.

You just couldn't find those 'holy men!'Ron: I was going for the gusto! I thought holy men should be near the holy river of Ganges


Ex-cop Among Eight Extradited From Jamaica to Kingston to Face Lottery Scam Charges

Apr 27, 2017

Eight Jamaicans, including a former police officer, were today extradited to the United States to face charges related to their alleged involvement in a lottery scam.

Ex-policeman Jason Jahalal, Alrick McLeod, Oneil Brown, Xanu Ann Morgan, Dario Palmer, Kazrae Gray, Kimberly Hudson and Dahlia Hunter – the mother of the mastermind of the scheme, Lavrick Willocks – will each face one count of conspiracy and attempting to commit wire fraud, 48 counts of wire fraud, 15 counts of mail fraud, and one count of money laundering in the US state of North Dakota.The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday requested that a judge allow a higher court review previous rulings in favor of a lawsuit alleging President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE has violated the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

The DOJ attorneys argue in the filing that there is enough "difference of opinion" on the legal questions in the lawsuit, including the definition of the Emoluments Clause, that an appeals court should review Judge Emmet Sullivan's rulings before the case advances.

And the Justice Department, which is representing the president in the lawsuit


of conduct of public officials — from President George Washington to President Barack Obama Barack Hussein ObamaThe Memo: Trump's strengths complicate election picture Obama shares phone number to find out how Americans are planning to vote Democrats' troubling adventure in a 'Wonderland' without 'rule of law' MORE — that has been accepted throughout history."

The DOJ lawyers also requested that Sullivan, a Clinton appointee, temporarily halt proceedings in the lawsuit while he considers their motion and continue that stay if a higher court does take up their appeal.

"This case presents the unprecedented circumstance of impending civil discovery against the sitting President of the United States concerning his compliance with a constitutional provision in his official capacity. Any discovery would necessarily be a distraction to the President’s performance of hisA family home is up for grabs in the highlands – complete with a 3,500-year-old Pictish stone circle in the garden.

The four-bedroom property south of Inverness boasts stunning views from its three storeys, en-suite bathrooms, and a conservatory.

Any buyer of Stonehenge House will have to accept that there’s nothing much they can do with the legally-protected ancient monument that takes up part of the back garden.

And they will also have to prepare for a knock on the door from visitors – some from abroad – who have the right to visit the stone circle.

The £275,000 property in Farr, about eight miles south of Inverness, is only about 40 years old.

Remarkably, the original builder got away with enclosing the stone circle, called Croftcroy, within the garden and just 6ft


energy state throughout the universe,
it generated a repulsive force that led to a rapid expansion of space.
This expansion explains various properties of the current universe that are difficult to account for without such an inflationary epoch.
It is not known exactly when the inflationary epoch ended,
but it is thought to have been between 10−33 and 10−32 seconds after the Big Bang.
The rapid expansion of space meant that elementary particles remaining from the grand unification epoch were now distributed very thinly across the universe. However,
the huge potential energy of the inflaton field was released at the end of the inflationary epoch,
repopulating the universe with a dense,
hot mixture of quarks,
anti-quarks and gluons as it entered the electroweak epoch.
On 17 March 2014,
astrophysicists of the BICEP2 collaboration announced the detection of inflationary gravitationalTHOUSAND OAKS, CA - NOVEMBER 09: The Woolsey Fire burns towards Paramount Ranch on November 9, 2018 in Agoura Hills, California. (Photo by Matthew Simmons/Getty Images) This photo taken from video provided by CBS2/KCAL9 shows a wildfire burning in Camarillo, Calif., Thursday afternoon, Nov. 8, 2018. Known as the Hill fire, it here has crossed U.S. Highway 101, at center right, potentially threatening hundreds of homes. (CBS2/KCAL9 via AP) THOUSAND OAKS, CA - NOVEMBER 09: Horses are spooked as the Woolsey Fire moves through the property on Cornell Road near Paramount Ranch on November 9, 2018 inAgoura Hills, California. About 75,000 homes have been evacuated in Los Angeles and Ventura counties due to two fires in the region. (Photo by Matthew Simmons/Getty Images) Medical personnel evacuate patients as


the Feather River Hospital burns while the Camp Fire rages through Paradise, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Tens of thousands of people fled a fast-moving wildfire Thursday in Northern California, some clutching babies and pets as they abandoned vehicles and struck out on foot ahead of the flames that forced the evacuation of an entire town. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) The massive plume from the Camp Fire, burning in the Feather River Canyon near Paradise, Calif., wafts over the Sacramento Valley as seen from Chico, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Authorities in Northern California have ordered mandatory evacuations in a rural area where the wildfire has grown to 1,000 acres (405 hectares) amid hot and windy weather. (David Little/Chico Enterprise-Record via AP) A home burns as theand pets as they abandoned vehicles and struck out on foot ahead of the flames that forced the evacuation of an entire town. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) People wear masks while walking through the Financial District in the smoke-filled air Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, in San Francisco. Authorities have issued an unhealthy air quality alert for parts of the San Francisco Bay Area as smoke from a massive wildfire drifts south, polluting the air. Officials say the thousands of structures in the town of Paradise, 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, were destroyed by the blaze that has charred 110 square miles (285 square kilometers). (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) THOUSAND OAKS, CA - NOVEMBER 08: Travis Lundgren, a street maintenance worker, uses a cooler of ice and water


to help put out a flair up along Rancho Conejo Blvd. during the Hill Fire in Thousand Oaks, CA, on Thursday, Nov 8, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images) PORTER RANCH, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 09: The Woolsey Fire is seen looking towards the west valley area on November 9, 2018 in Porter Ranch, California. About 75,000 homes have been evacuated in Los Angeles and Ventura counties due to two fires in the region. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) A statue rests amid a charred lot as the Camp Fire tears through Paradise, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Tens of thousands of people fled a fast-moving wildfire Thursday in Northern California, some clutching babies and pets as they abandoned vehicles and struckout on foot ahead of the flames that forced the evacuation of an entire town. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) THOUSAND OAKS, CA - NOVEMBER 08: The Hill Fire burns in the hills east of Conejo Center Drive in Thousand Oaks, CA, on Thursday, Nov 8, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images) Smoke from the Camp Fire, burning in the Feather River Canyon near Paradise, Calif., darkens the sky as seen from Highway 99 near Marysville, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Don Thompson) A home burns as the Camp Fire rages through Paradise, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Tens of thousands of people fled a fast-moving wildfire Thursday in Northern California, some clutching babies and pets as they abandoned vehicles and struck


out on foot ahead of the flames that forced the evacuation of an entire town.(AP Photo/Noah Berger) Smoke from wildfires burning in Northern California obscures the Sierra Nevada in this view from an airliner approaching Sacramento, Calif., Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. The director of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services says fires across California have forced 157,000 people from their homes. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus) Smoke from the Camp Fire, burning in the Feather River Canyon near Paradise, Calif., darkens the sky above the Butte College sig in Oroville, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Don Thompson) A police officer mans a checkpoint in front of an advancing wildfire Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, near Newbury Park, Calif. The Ventura County Fire Department has ordered evacuation of some communitiesVentura County Fire Department has also ordered evacuation of some communities in the path of the fire, which erupted a few miles from the site of Wednesday night's deadly mass shooting at a Thousand Oaks bar. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) PORTER RANCH, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 09: The Woolsey Fire is seen looking towards the Oak Park area on November 9, 2018 in Porter Ranch, California. 75,000 homes have been evacuated in Los Angeles and Ventura counties due to two fires in the region. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) A home burns as the Camp Fire rages through Paradise, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Tens of thousands of people fled a fast-moving wildfire Thursday in Northern California, some clutching babies and pets as they abandoned vehicles and struck out


on foot ahead of the flames that forced the evacuation of an entire town. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) A wildfire comes down from a hilltop Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, near Newbury Park, Calif. The Ventura County Fire Department has ordered evacuation of some communities in the path of the fire, which erupted a few miles from the site of Wednesday night's deadly mass shooting at a Thousand Oaks bar. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) Flames consume a car and building as the Camp Fire tears through Paradise, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Plumes of smoke loom in the sky several miles away, seen behind a home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., as a wind-driven wildfire known as the Hill fire threatens the area late Thursday afternoon, Nov.4, 2018. This is a few miles from the scene of Wednesday's mass shooting at the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks. (AP Photo/Kathleen Ronayne) This photo provided by Nicole Kowalczyke shows smoke and ash from the nearby Camp Fire in Chico, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. (Nicole Kowalczyke via AP) This photo provided by Nicole Kowalczyke shows heavy traffic with smoke and ash from the nearby Camp Fire overhead in Chico, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. (Nicole Kowalczyke via AP) Smoke from the Camp Fire darkens the sky on the horizon as a bulldozer cuts a fire line to protect Butte College in Oroville, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Don Thompson) THOUSAND OAKS, CA - NOVEMBER 08: A water dropping helicopter heads to fill up as the


sun sets during the Hill Fire in Thousand Oaks, CA, on Thursday, Nov 8, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images) THOUSAND OAKS, CA - NOVEMBER 08: A firefighter releases water dropping helicopters after they filled up near Conejo Center Drive during the Hill Fire in Thousand Oaks, CA, on Thursday, Nov 8, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images) THOUSAND OAKS, CA - NOVEMBER 08: The Hill Fire burns in the hills east of Conejo Center Drive in Thousand Oaks, CA, on Thursday, Nov 8, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images) THOUSAND OAKS, CA - NOVEMBER 08: The Hill Fire burns in the hills east of Conejo Center Drive in ThousandOaks, CA, on Thursday, Nov 8, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images) A home burns during the Camp fire in Paradise, California on November 8, 2018. - More than 18,000 acres have been scorched in a matter of hours burning with it a hospital, a gas station and dozens of homes. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images) The Hill wildfire burns in the predawn hours of Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, seen from Agoura Hills in Southern California. The director of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services says fires across California have forced 157,000 people from their homes. The fire near the Northern California town of Paradise has grown to nearly 110 square miles (285


square kilometers). (AP Photo/Haven Daley) Smoke from wildfires burning in Northern California obscures the Sierra Nevada in this view from an airliner approaching Sacramento, Calif., Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. The director of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services says fires across California have forced 157,000 people from their homes. The fire near the Northern California town of Paradise has grown to nearly 110 square miles (285 square kilometers). Another fire northwest of Los Angeles has been swept southward toward the ocean by strong Santa Ana winds. Evacuation orders were issued for residents of the beachside community of Malibu. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus) Strong winds blow smoke horizontally over the the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean over the city of Malibu, far distance, in Southern California, seenfrom the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles Friday morning, Nov. 9, 2018. The director of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services says fires across California have forced 157,000 people from their homes. The fire near the Northern California town of Paradise has grown to nearly 110 square miles (285 square kilometers). Another fire northwest of Los Angeles has been swept southward toward the ocean by strong Santa Ana winds. Evacuation orders were issued for residents of the beachside community of Malibu. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) Firefighter Adrien Mahnke pauses while battling the Camp Fire as it tears through Paradise, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Tens of thousands of people fled a fast-moving wildfire Thursday in Northern California, some clutching babies and pets as they abandoned vehicles


abandoned vehicles and struck out on foot ahead of the flames that forced the evacuation of an entire town and destroyed hundreds of structures. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) REFILE - QUALITY REPEAT An abandoned vehicle is seen on a road during the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, U.S. November 8, 2018. REUTERS/Stephen Lam An American flag is seen at an engulfed car dealership during the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, U.S. November 8, 2018. REUTERS/Stephen Lam PORTER RANCH, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 09: The Woolsey Fire is seen looking towards the west valley area on November 9, 2018 in Porter Ranch, California. About 75,000 homes have been evacuated in Los Angeles and Ventura counties due to two fires in the region. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) PORTER RANCH, CALIFORNIA -NOVEMBER 09: The Woolsey Fire is seen looking towards the west valley area on November 9, 2018 in Porter Ranch, California. About 75,000 homes have been evacuated in Los Angeles and Ventura counties due to two fires in the region. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) THOUSAND OAKS, CA - NOVEMBER 09: Firefighters from various departments work to protect structures as the Woolsey Fire moves through the property on Cornell Road near Paramount Ranch on November 9, 2018 in Agoura Hills, California. About 75,000 homes have been evacuated in Los Angeles and Ventura counties due to two fires in the region. (Photo by Matthew Simmons/Getty Images) THOUSAND OAKS, CA - NOVEMBER 09: A South Pasadena Fire Department engine fights the Woolsey Fire as it moves through the property on