you wouldn't be rejected?

"Hey, Edie, have you had dinner?" Jim suddenly asked.

"Ah, no."

"Why don't you come and have dinner with us?" He bounced Chloe in his arms, and she giggled.

"Oh. No. I mean, no, thank you. I—I have to clean up here." Dinner? With Jim Curran and his Chloe. The idea confounded her.

"We could go home, get things ready, and you can come over when you're done here. We took up your evening. The least we can do is make you dinner. It won't be anything fancy, but . . . ," he said, trailing off enticingly.

She wanted to. Lord knew she wanted to, but . . . but . . . "No. I . . . No," she finished, hoping he wouldn't press her, yet hoping hein well-known and highly visible business establishments that cater to both domestic and foreign demand for commercial sex acts. Child sex tourism in particular remains a serious problem in the Philippines, with sex tourists coming from Northeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and North America to engage in the commercial sexual exploitation of children.

Other obstacles include corruption and the inefficient judicial system which prevent successful prosecution in trafficking cases.

Throughout 2010, there were reports that officials and police in anti-trafficking units and agencies permitted traffickers to escape during raids; conducted fake raids in order to extort bribes from traffickers and victims; and accepted payments or sexual services from establishments known for trafficking women and children.

The U.S. Department of State keeps a close watch on human trafficking around the globe


SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (KABC) -- The body of a young man was found on an island in the Los Angeles River in Los Feliz and officials were working to determine if they have found the San Fernando 14-year-old who has been missing for more than a week.A search volunteer found the body around 2 p.m. on a small island in the river off Los Feliz Boulevard and the 5 Freeway. A bicycle was also removed from the scene.Family members of Elias Rodriguez gathered at the scene after the discovery of the body was announced.Police confirmed the body appeared to be a "young man" who seemed to have been there for about eight days - or since the time Eli disappeared. As of late Saturday night, the county coroner'soffice said it had not yet made an identification on the body.The said the body had appeared to suffer damage, possibly as a result of being in strong flood waters, which had reached up to 70 mph on the day of heavy rains when Eli went missing.The location was about 18 miles south of where Eli would have been taking his normal after-school route to his grandmother's house.Dozens of friends, family and community members have been searching areas throughout the northeast San Fernando Valley for the missing teenager. As news of the discovery reached them, many flocked to the scene along the river. One woman was seen nearly collapsing and being held up by family members.Eli has been missing since Feb. 17, when he was last seen leaving


All of the UFO waves of the modern UFO era had their own certain angle of uniqueness to them. And 1964 was no different. For example, although there are several accounts on record previously, the 1964 UFO wave appeared to lean heavily to encounters that featured strange aerial vehicles landing on the ground close to the respective witnesses as opposed to sightings of strange lights in the distance.

What is perhaps also worth noting is how the UFO wave of 1964 appeared to have a “flick of the switch” feel to it, with very few sightings (by comparison) in the first three months of the year, before a sudden and absolute explosion of activity thereafter.

It is perhaps also interesting that there was, at the time, a perceived “quietening down”of UFO activity following the UFO wave of 1957, particularly the frantic end to it in November of that year. However, in reality, and certainly proven since as accounts and reports have entered the public arena, it appeared that this quietening down was really more in line with a lack of publicity and, in turn, reports.

We have examined before that there appeared at various points in the timeline of UFO history an effort to not only suppress evidence and potential proof of such encounters but also to strongarm publications and media platforms into limiting or even stopping their coverage of such accounts. Of course, with the rise of the Internet such grips on information have loosened considerably allowing a truer picture to emerge.

Now, with a wealth of information


the scene more closely, he could make out five silhouettes moving about below, seemingly coming back and forth from a landed “machine” on the ground below. The object appeared to be round, at least the part that was lit up and was visible to the pilot above. The silhouettes, who the pilot surmised were the occupants of the craft, appeared to concentrate on the area around the craft.

As he continued to watch, the glowing light suddenly went out. A few moments later, the object began to rise off the ground, hovering in the air for several moments. The pilot could see the underside was flatter than the oval-shaped topside of the craft that until a few seconds ago had been glowing warmly.

Then, without making a sound or displayingany form of obvious propulsion, the object shot directly upward into the air at, speed and disappeared into the black sky.

Upon examining the area where he had first seen the object the following morning, the pilot discovered discolored parts of grass and vegetation. Despite this, though, the pilot would keep the incident to himself.

We should note, in fact, this account arrives in the public arena via one of the many “report a UFO” websites available, and was reported anonymously in this manner, to a French website in 2007.

The 1964 Wave Begins

The encounter at Le Bourget, much like the alleged UFO photograph from Germany a week later, contains details remarkably similar to many of the claims that would surface in the following months. In particular, the notion that the


occupants of the crafts were seemingly gathering samples for further study.

With this in mind, they certainly fit the pattern of a great many of the UFO sightings that were about to explode around the world, in particular across the United States, following the events in Socorro, New Mexico on 24th April.

Sightings continued in abundance in the days and then weeks following the Socorro case. For example, on the evening of 26th April in Las Vegas, Nevada, an engineer witnessed between 12 to 15 silver disc-shaped objects flying overhead. What’s more, they appeared to be flying in formation.

Two days later on the afternoon of the 28th April, siblings Sharon and Robin Stull, 10 and 8 years old respectively, would witness an “egg-shaped object” hovering over their school (Lowell Elementary).The object was in the air and visible to the children for around 10 minutes.

Robin, however, would run from the spot shortly after the strange objects appeared. Sharon, on the other hand, remained and watched the bizarre craft until it disappeared. She would, though, suffer strange “infra-red burns” to her face which required significant medical attention.

On the evening of 30th April over Canyon Ferry Reservoir in Montana, an entire family would witness an “egg-shaped” object land on the ground before suddenly taking off and disappearing into the night sky.

Many Sightings With Very Similar Details

As the sightings and reports continued to flood in, it was beginning to look apparent that many of the sightings were of oval or egg-shaped crafts. And, unlike in previous years, many of them were


multiple objects, often flying in some kind of purposeful formation. In short, they were most definitely under intelligent control.

Perhaps an incident on the evening of 9th May over Chicago, Illinois is indicative of many of the incidents unfolding at the time. A reporter with the United States District Court, J.R. Betz, witnessed “3 light green crescent-shaped objects” moving in tight formation across the night sky. They remained visible for several seconds, before disappearing into the distance.

On the 17th May at a little after 10 pm in Tipton, Indiana, multiple witnesses, including several police officers, witnessed a “reddish object” hovering overhead. As the onlookers watched in awe, the object set off a breakneck speed across the sky. Intriguingly, when it did so, it appeared to many of the witnessessame?

The Hubbard Landing Case

Two days after the landing case in Tipton, at around 7:30 am on the morning of 19th May in Hubbard, Oregon, Michael Bizon, only a young boy a the time of the sighting, had gone outside to the farm where he lived with his family to “put the cow out in the field”. However, straight away he realized that something was wrong. Whereas she was normally eager to be out of the barn and outside, on this morning she was positively “bucking all the way”.

It wasn’t long before Michael saw the reason for the sudden anxiety. In the middle of the field opposite was a shiny silver-colored UFO, stood on “four shiny legs”. Then, as he watched with the cow still under his control, a


“soft beep” suddenly sounded and the craft began to rise up, slowly. However, when it was past the telegraph poles, “it shot up just like a rocket” and disappeared.

By the time the young boy had returned to the house to inform his mother of what had just transpired, he was almost in tears due to the bizarre nature of the incident and the delayed fright now welling up inside. Certainly not the behavior of a child pulling a prank.

Furthermore, when the family would examine the field shortly afterward, they would discover an area where “the wheat (was) pushed out in a flower-shaped pattern”. When the police visited the property later that day, Officer Davidson would write in his report that “the grain appeared to have been pushed downnotion of appearing to offer assurance and then offer thanks suggest, at least on this occasion, a demonstration of the quality we would recognize in ourselves as “having morals”.

A Very Active Summer

As May gave way to June and the summer at least in Europe and the United States took charge, UFO sightings would continue to occur. And perhaps most importantly, witnesses would continue to report their sightings allowing the many UFO groups and organizations, if not the chance to directly investigate, to catalog and build up a true picture of the state of affairs in terms of UFO activity and encounters.

Strange Sightings Over Gateshead, England

Possibly one of the strangest encounters, at least according to the article concerning it in the UFO magazine Flying Saucers, took place in Gateshead


in England at roughly the same time as the sighting in Lancashire above.

According to the report, the Bell family would witness “three luminous flashes”, distinctly egg-shaped, moving overhead at a little after midnight. At the same time, a strange humming that one witness likened to a “swarm of bees but 20 times louder” accompanied the strange objects.

Even stranger, several days later on the afternoon of the 2nd June, another sighting took place at virtually the same location, this time at Leam Lane Farm. The witness, 14-year-old David Wilson, was walking by the farm at around 5:30 am that morning. As he did so, though, he noticed what he thought was a group of children stood on one of the piles of haystacks.

Intrigued, he walked over to the scene.As he came closer he realized the “children” were, in fact, several 8-foot humanoids, each wearing tight, green costumes. They were riffling through the hay, much like someone might do as if looking for something particular.

It would turn out he wasn’t the only witness to the events, with several other children in the area, presumably on their way to school, also claiming to have seen similar “people”. One witness, a young girl, also claimed to have seen a “circular silver object the size of a car” spinning as it lifted into the air. As it took off into the sky, a warm, orange glow briefly illuminated the area.

The McKinley Avenue Sighting, California

On the evening of 2nd June, at around 10:30 pm, Mrs. Holmes was driving home along McKinley


or obvious source. It is just “there”.

The strange object was still visible in the skies by the time she was pulling her car up outside of her home. She would quickly rush inside to alert her husband to the bizarre events. By the time the couple returned outside, although it was still visible, the object was now quite some distance away.

However, before vanishing out of sight they would witness the object moving to one side of the sky in a surge of speed. It would then repeat this before settling at a specific spot and being joined by two other glowing crafts. They would then move away at a steady pace, eventually disappearing into the distance. The entire episode would last approximately 10 minutes.

Hovering Saucer-Shaped Craft Over Lynn,Massachusetts

On the evening of 15th June, at around 11 pm, a 20-year-old student, William Angelos was watching television at home when a sudden loud noise disturbed the otherwise quiet summer’s night. He would later describe the sounds as being “similar to a rough-running piston engine”. And what’s more, it sounded as though it was right outside the family’s ground floor apartment.

William rushed to the front door and ran outside into the street to view events up close. He stopped completely in his tracks when he noticed, right in front of him, hovering just above the ground in the courtyard of the apartment complex, a disc-shaped object with a flashing red light on its underside, which was distinctly flat by comparison to the domed top.

After several moments the strange


object began to rise into the air. It did so at a slight angle and relatively slowly. The object would eventually disappear into the night sky.

It would come to light in the subsequent investigation that several people in the apartment block had experienced substantial television interference at just after 11 pm (the time of the sighting) on the night in question. Several others would also report hearing an extremely loud, thumping noise at the same time. And while William was seemingly the only person to actually witness the craft itself, one resident of the apartment block would claim to have seen a “strange red light” outside their window on the night in question.

The Broome County Humanoid Encounter

One of the strangest incidents of the summer of 1964 during thatyear’s UFO wave took place in Conklin in Broome County, New York on the afternoon of 16th July. Five friends, 10-year-old Floyd Moore, 7-year-old Billy Dunlap, 5-year-old Gary Dunlap, and brothers Edmund and Randy Travis 9 and 7 respectively, were playing near (and in) an apple tree they regularly congregated around.

On this particular afternoon, however, as they peered out over the fields from the sturdy branches of the tree, they noticed a strange “dome-like” object seemingly landed in one of the pastures. Although it was sat within the tall weeds and so slightly covered, they could still make out the shiny exterior of the craft, “like a car’s chromium bumper”. As they watched the object – which remained still – a sudden bizarre piercing sound rang out.

Then, as


Travis’ mother, each recalled the exact same story.

Perhaps even stranger, when the boys led Mrs. Travis to the spot in the field where they had witnessed the strange craft and creature, although both were now gone, they discovered a perfect circle where the vegetation and weeds had seemingly been flattened by something heavy. Furthermore, the soil and moss underneath this circular area were decisively dry as if “intense heat had withered it”.

Several other depressions and markings were also discovered in the ground upon further inspection. The incident remains unexplained.

The Giant Spinning Top Case, Georgia

Without a doubt, one of the most intriguing incidents to unfold during the summer of 1964 took place on the evening of 29th June in Lavonia, Georgia. The witness, businessman, Beauford Parham was returning homeand was just outside Lavonia when he:

…spotted a very bright light in the sky. (It was) coming directly toward my car. The next instance, it was directly in front of my headlights spinning like a giant top!

He would state that a strange “hissing sound like a million snakes” while in the vicinity of the strange object. Furthermore, the object was clearly in two parts with the “top part of the object moving in a clockwise direction” while the bottom half moved “counterclockwise”.

It had an amber color to it and had small portholes at the bottom in which he could see something akin to flames. He would estimate it was “big enough to hold a man”.

It would suddenly disappear “in a flash” for a moment before reappearing once more.


And Sober” Witness!

He would begin to feel an intense burning on his arms several minutes later. By which time, the strange object had reappeared and disappeared a third time. He would recall:

My only thought was to get somewhere and let someone know what I had seen!

Shortly after he would arrive in Lavonia where he would stop momentarily so he could wash the oily residue from his arms and his car. However, despite several attempts, the burning sensation in his arms persisted. And the oily markings on the car’s exterior was clear for all to see.

Nevertheless, he would jump back in the car and drive to Anderson Air Force in South Carolina. Once there, he would report the incident to the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) as well as thethe strangest cases of the 1964 UFO wave is not actually a sighting per se but a discovery made near the Kallavesi Lake in Finland in late August.

The incident would unfold when 30-year-old Raimo Blomqvist ventured to his parents’ summer cottage for several days. One evening at around 7 pm, Raimo would notice a “colorful light ball” in the sky overhead. What’s more, it was coming out from the clouds and seemingly descending down to the ground.

As it came closer, he could see it was clearly an oval-shaped object which glowed brilliantly as it moved. Then, the glowing oval object came to a stop and hovered several feet above the water’s surface. As he continued to watch, himself only meters away from the strange aerial anomaly, he witnessed


apparent obsession with such weapons.

You can view a recreation of that incident below.

Strange Glowing Object Terrorizes Cattle, Somerset, England, 30th October

During a night fishing trip in Somerset in England at around midnight on the 30th of October, four businessmen would witness a “brilliant red light” overhead. So bright was the glow from the object that several of the fields and a large portion of the riverbank was awash in it.

The object was moving slowly overhead and began approaching a herd of cattle in one of the fields. The witnesses would estimate there were approximately 50 cows in this particular field. And what’s more, as the strange object approached closer, they became increasingly agitated and anxious. In fact, as it came lower, the cows began to run away in1964 wave, though, occurred just short of a week later in November back in America. This time, on the east coast of the United States.

The Berlin, New York Landings

On the evening of 5th November in Berlin, New York, an incident would see not one but two strange UFO crafts land amid an apparent repair mission.

The witness in question, local resident Kathy Hatzenbuhler, was watching the night sky from her porch. Suddenly, what she thought was a shooting star caught her attention, followed by another descending light. This second light, however, doesn’t fall to the ground in the usual manner of a shooting star. Instead, it descends in a directly vertical way eventually coming to a stop just above the ground before moving in a horizontal fashion toward the


apparent landing spot of the first strange light, which the witness now no longer believed was a shooting star.

Even more unnerving, the second light then begins in her direction. As it does so, a “low humming noise” becomes audible to the witness. Furthermore, the object itself begins to glow intensely. By the time she had called out to her mother-in-law to also watch the bizarre events unfolding, the light was coming directly toward where she stood.

Although she moved back toward the door of her property, Kathy remained outside, almost “transfixed” with the approaching object. In the distance, Kathy could see a car coming up the road which slows somewhat, telling her the driver had obviously seen the strange object. However, when it sped up again, the glowing craftdescribe several years later:

It (the first ship) went straight up…almost like an instantaneous disappearance in the direction it had come from! A minute later the other vehicle rose straight up, went to the crest of the hill, rose a little further again and shot off in the same direction!

However, the following day she would venture out to the scene of the incident with her husband. Not only would they find several sets of evenly spaced out triangular depressions in the ground. They would also discover, apparently simply laying on the ground “in full sight”, was a “piece of cable”. However, it was far from a cable that you might imagination came from Earth. Kathy would state:

The outer part of it looked like wrapping, something like a brown paper


own interviews with Kathy. Not once has she ever differed from her version of events. Furthermore, almost universally, she is considered one of the most credible witnesses in such a bizarre case.

What really happened that November evening in 1964 in rural New York, however, is likely to remain a mystery for the foreseeable future. At least until such time when our collective understanding of the UFO and alien question allows us to make educated cases as to the nature of such bizarre, unexplained incidents.

The Virginia Cone-Shaped Encounter

Possibly one of the last sightings of the 1964 UFO wave, if only by date, took place in the early evening of 21st December near Staunton in Virginia. At around 5 pm, Horace Burns was driving home when he witnessed “an immensecone-shaped object” making its way across the highway. What’s more, it was moving at an impossible (for its size) 15 miles per hour.

He would further notice that the tip of the cone appeared as though pointed forward, as acting as the “front” of the strange aerial vehicle.

At the moment it crossed his path, it was barely 200 feet from his now slowing car. After it cleared the highway, Burns would bring his car to a complete stop and watch as the bizarre object landed in a field at the side of the road. Despite its behemoth-like size and the obvious machine-like exterior, it appeared “like a bubble” as it descended.

As he examined it, now hampered by the rapidly fading light and the rapid onset of night, he could


return to Titans Tower, to discover Starfire's older sister, Blackfire, has stopped by Earth for a visit.

Starfire is initially overjoyed to see her elder sister, however her sisterly feelings change when Blackfire is well-received by the other Titans, and Starfire feels abandoned. Her attempts to restore her team's interest in her prove futile, and only sees the others getting further impressed by Blackfire. While attempting to spark the Titans' interest by having a movie night, Blackfire steals the attention by inviting them to a disco. Starfire is left alone when the other Titans manage to find partners for a dance. Robin tries to talk to her, but Blackfire drags him off. Starfire once again encounter the probes, which manage to overwhelm her. The Titans come to her rescue,where Blackfire destroys all the probes with light purple-colored blackbolts from her eyes. When Robin asks her how she did it, she replies with a hint of a smile that it was just a lucky guess. Cyborg remarks that they need that kind of luck and offers Blackfire a spot on the team. Starfire, who is still recovering from the attack, gasps in shock.

Starfire is sad about this at first, but then comes to the decision that the team will be better off without her, and decides to leave. Just when she is about to leave Robin appears and starts to talk to her but just then, the aliens who sent the probes show up and take Starfire captive. Robin attacks their ship and sets her free, but


just as the other Titans show up and prepare to battle, the aliens announce that they are Centauri police, here to capture a Tamaranean thief, who they say is Starfire because she's a Tamaranean and because she was wearing the Centauri Moon diamond that Blackfire gave her, but she'd never even been to the Centauri Moons. But the Titans know who has been to Centauri and that there's another Tamaranean on Earth. Seeing the Centauri Moon diamond on Starfire, Robin realizes they must be talking about Blackfire because she's been to the Centauri Moons; that's where she'd gotten the diamond, and she told Starfire herself. It all turns out that Blackfire had stolen the diamond and gave it to Starfire and was only pretending to be the Titans'friend so she could get away with her robberies in Centauri and let her sister take her place in jail. The Titans find that Blackfire is trying to escape Earth to return to Tamaran. Starfire, enraged, flies after her sister, and engages her in combat long enough for the Centaurians to capture her. Blackfire is taken away by the Centauri Police, vowing revenge on her sister. The scene changes, and Starfire is shown sitting alone when Robin joins her. He encourages her by saying that no one will be able to replace her, which reveals a smile on her face.

Notes

Title

Refering to the fact that Starfire and Blackfire are sisters.

Trivia

When Starfire shot a bright green starbolt at a drone, she did no damage whatsoever. However, when Blackfire used her


light purple eye-beams, she easily destroyed both drones in seconds. This is likely because of Blackfire's energy-projection abilities being much stronger than Starfire's bright green ones.

When Kai told the Titans that they're all under arrest, Starfire's armband disappears. When Cron said that Starfire had committed high crimes throughout Centauri and Starfire said she'd never been to Centauri, her armband reappears. Then when Robin gave Kai and Cron the stolen diamond Blackfire gave Starfire and said they've been chasing the wrong girl, Star's armband disappears again. Then when Star and Robin are talking on the roof when she first folds her arm she has her armband. When she unfolds them her armband disappears for the rest of the episode.

When Starfire tries to recite her six thousand verses of Gratitude,Q:

Horror movie where a guy loses his hand after putting his hand INTO a mirror?

I only vaguely remember a scene from a horror movie, where near the climax, the characters are trying to escape from the haunted house and during the escape, one of the ghosts (who is inside a mirror) tempts a guy into coming back. The guy gets hypnotized (kinda) and puts his hand INTO the mirror. The other characters try to pull him out and succeed but he ends up losing his hand in the process. The guy survives.
Other small details I THINK I remember, which I'm not sure of:

the guy who loses his hand was overweight
the ghost in the mirror was his mother (or at least had the appearance of his mother)
the movie might


be from the early 90s. It looked "clean" quality-wise, like an american film, and I think it used CGI for the mirror effect, where it looked like the mirror was liquid when the guy grabbed inside of it.
the characters look over a grave near the end (along with the guy who lost his hand)

Does anybody know the name of that movie?

A:

It kinda sounds like Stephen King's Rose Red. There was a scene near the end of the final part in the miniseries when they where escaping the mansion when a character that had recently died turned into a ghost and was attempting to pull the man into the mirror and a guy manages to help him get free.

A vice admiral who is second in command at the United States Strategic Command, which oversees nuclear war-fighting forces for the military, has been suspended amid an investigation into his possible involvement in illegal gambling, officials said on Saturday.

The officer, Vice Adm. Timothy M. Giardina, is a highly decorated sailor with more than three decades in the Navy. The suspension occurred on Sept. 3, but was not announced publicly, said Capt. Pamela Kunze, the command’s spokeswoman.

Captain Kunze would not comment further on the circumstances surrounding the suspension, citing a continuing investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.


arrived at a few years early – that, having tried for some time, dating younger women was a non-starter. Having separated from the mother of his two teenage sons in his mid-40s, the British IT manager was keen to get back on to the dating scene. He was, however, unprepared for what he found there.

LEON NEAL/GETTY IMAGES Dating a "digital native" when you are anything but is no easy proposition.

"After a 20-year relationship, I began online dating," he says. "I was talking to girls in their 20s because those were the ones I felt most attracted to. But none seemed interested. All they wanted to do was send me titillating pictures of themselves.

"When I tried to take things further, they 'ghosted' me. I hadn't expected them to beman's impression of his attractiveness to women young enough to be his daughter. (File photo)

According to Gillian McCallum, CEO of Drawing Down the Moon, Jonathan's view is typical of the approach her clients take to dating. "The men might be attracted to younger women, but when they want a relationship, they want it with another adult," she says. "Men are not coming to us and asking for a much younger model."

Finding the right age match is not the only challenge that men on today's fast-paced, often cut-throat dating scene must contend with, however. Many men also struggle when it comes to emotional intimacy.

"Older women are good at keeping female friendships, at networking and at keeping up with their favourite activities," says Kurland. "Sometimes, older men lose the art


Story highlights Group wanting relaxed classification of marijuana holds protest

Rally includes use of drug

Washington (CNN) An activist group held a "smoke-in" in front of the White House on Saturday in an effort to urge President Barack Obama to reschedule marijuana's current classification.

DCMJ, a community group fighting for decriminalization and the rescheduling of marijuana, headed the protest in which about 200 people participated and many smoked or vaped marijuana in front of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue at 4:20 p.m., a number sequence associated with use of the drug.

Protesters built a 51-foot inflatable marijuana joint replica that read, "Obama, reschedule cannabis now."

The group, in a statement, called Obama a "hypocrite" after he admitted to smoking pot as a teen.

Marijuana is currently designated a Schedule I drug by the Drug Enforcement Administration.Overweight at age 21: the association with body mass index in childhood and adolescence and parents' body mass index. A cohort study of New Zealanders born in 1972-1973.
Obesity is an increasing problem so understanding the association between childhood and adolescent measures of body mass index (BMI) and being overweight at age 21 has implications for treatment or strategies to reduce its prevalence. To examine the association between measures of BMI in childhood and adolescence and parents' BMI and being overweight at age 21. The study was based on a birth cohort born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1972-1973. BMI tracked from childhood to early adulthood. The point on the BMI distribution where the probability of being overweight at age 21 was 0.5 was close to the 75th centile


Since I've had the assignment of staying in touch with people who have not joined a CPUSA club, I've corresponded with wonderfully interesting people from all over the remote parts of the United States. None was more interesting than the Reverend Paul White, who wrote the essay below to me:

I became a Marxist during the 1960s. I was ordained as a Baptist pastor in 1987. I remember telling my oldest son, when he was still a very young man, about my civil rights and anti-war activities during the 1960’s and how my involvement in those movements moved me toward Marxism. He asked what had caused me to renounce Marxism and become a Christian. I told him I had never renounced Marxism, I had simply switched nouns and adjectives.oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, but do not fear me,” says the LORD Almighty.

Matthew 25:31-46 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I


DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers entered this season as heavy favorites to win the American League Central Division title.

At times, the lofty expectations seemed a bit too big to fulfill.

But in the end, they didn't disappoint.

The Tigers were crowned division champions for a second straight year Monday night, clinching a postseason berth for the 14th time in franchise history following their 6-3 win in Kansas City.

After trailing the Chicago White Sox in the AL Central for most the season, the Tigers gained sole possession of the division in late September and never looked back.

They became the first team in the American League to clinch their division en route to earning back-to-back postseason berths for the first time in 77 years.

And, like he has been for most games thisnight. Only it was too late.

Losers in 10 of its last 13 games, the White Sox

. But their playoff hopes were shattered less than an hour later.

Entering Monday, the Tigers' magic number to clinch the division was one. A Chicago loss and the Tigers would've clinched the division, regardless of the outcome of their game.

The Tigers now head back to the postseason, where a stellar offense them to the ALCS last year before finally being sent home by the Texas Rangers.

It's possible the Tigers, who are set to open Game 1 of the ALDS at home on Saturday, could see Texas this weekend, but another first-round matchup against the New York Yankees seems more likely.

TIGERS' HIGHLIGHTS

-- There was question as to whether Porcello's velocity would be an issue


Monday after the 23-year-old saw a noticeable drop in his last start. That question was quickly answered when he consistently touch 94 mph and topped out at 95 in the first inning.

-- Porcello threw five shutout innings and retired a string of 10 straight batters before giving up a single to David Lough in the fifth. Alex Gordon broke up the shutout in the sixth with a leadoff home run to deep right, which chased Porcello from the game.

-- Jhonny Peralta's fifth-inning home run off Bruce Chen broke a scoreless tie and gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead. The 392-foot shot fell in the Royals' bullpen for his 13th this season.

TRIPLE CROWN WATCH

-- Cabrera continues to add on to his record-breaking season. His fourth-inning single gave him his200th hit this season, making him the 21st player in franchise history to record 200-plus hits in a single season. He's the first Tigers player to do it since Placido Polanco and Magglio Ordonez accomplished it in 2007.

-- More impressive? He became only the second Tigers player -- and first since Hank Greenberg -- to record 200-plus hits and 40-plus home runs in a single season.

-- Cabrera finished the day 4-for-5, raising his batting average four points to .329 -- giving him a four-point lead over Los Angeles' Mike Trout, who has the second-best batting average in the AL.

-- Cabrera's 203 hits, 40 doubles, 44 homers, 137 RBIs have been reached only three times in history -- twice by Lou Gehrig and once by Babe Ruth.

TIGERS' LOWLIGHTS

-- After


a one-out single in the fifth, Dirks was gunned down by Alex Gordon at third base when he tried taking two bags on Avisail Garcia's flare to left field. It was the Royals' 51st outfield assist this year -- two short of the franchise record set in 1969.

-- Al Alburquerque relieved Porcello in the sixth and promptly gave up a double and back-to-back walks to load the bases for Jeff Francoeur with no outs. The result? Not bad, actually. Alburquerque limited the damage by inducing a double play, which scored the runner from third, before striking out Lough to escape the jam.

POSTGAME QUESTION

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continued. "I love the stories told in film and cinema, and those tend to be the stories that resonate most deeply with me. I found really early on that there were these movies that I identified with — and I wanted to be in them."

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That love of storytelling is not only now apparent in his job as a television host, but is evidenced in his Mission District warehouse. Housed within the confines of the building, often referred to as Savage's Cave — available as a "tour" on Google Maps — is not only a workshop space, but a museum of items he's collected over the years and a treasure trove of costumes he'sput together for various conference appearances.

By Savage's account, he has been to San Diego Comic-Con "over a dozen years," and has since added other "Cons" to his repertoire. Plenty of the costumes on display at the Cave have all taken a turn on the conference floors of the San Diego, New York and Silicon Valley Comic-Cons, as well as other fan gatherings such as DragonCon and Phoenix Fan Fusion.

And he's built quite the roster of costumes: Savage has attended Cons dressed as Hellboy, Kane from "Alien" (with a film-accurate spacesuit and Facehugger, to boot), No-Face from the animated film "Spirited Away," the Rocketeer, Totoro from "My Neighbor Totoro," a Ringwraith from "Lord of the Rings," historically accurate NASA spacesuits, a number of characters from "Star Wars" including Admiral


many of his costumes often either hide his face or require elaborate makeup. And it is that anonymity and theatrics that has drawn a few friends and TV personalities to join him, from celebrity chef Alton Brown to actor John Hodgman to astronaut Chris Hadfield.

Photo: Norman Chan Astronaut Chris Hadfield and Adam Savage in costume at San Diego...

As Savage has continued to make appearances at various Cons, it has since become a game of sorts to figure out which movie character he is masquerading as each year.

And while it may be too late to start planning a costume for this month's Comic-Con, Savage had advice for those who were on the verge of joining the cosplay world, and trying to figure out how to make that leap.

"The veryeven just a coat you want to wear. Maybe it's Agent K's coat from 'Blade Runner 2049.' It's a great coat. If that's where you want to start, then that's where you should."

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Savage will miss his first San Diego Comic-Con in years this summer, but with good reason: He is participating in two projects in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission's moon landing, pulling double duty as co-host of a National Symphony Orchestra concert event for the occasion and working on a live build of a full-scale replica of the crew hatch at the National Air and Space Museum on July 18. Still, he took SFGATE through the costumes in his warehouse and talked about each one at length.

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An Afro-Russian boy searches for hope and love in the labyrinthine Moscow metro in Hamid Ismailov’s The Underground

THE first word G. learns when he arrives in Russia is chornyi, or black. The next, the most frequent, is obezyana, or monkey.

It was just one word, he assures me. But repeated so many times, it accumulated weight and developed sharp edges. At least he wasn’t alone, he says. There were other guests of the Soviet Union, funded by and living under the protection of the government, students from many countries: Vietnam, Laos, Yemen, Cameroon, Angola, South Africa, Guinea, Mali, Congo, he names a long list. They treated us well, he adds; they were afraid who might be KGB. We were sheltered from the bluntest impact of racism by the Russianpeople’s wariness of each other, their own internalized fears and distrust. And remember, he continues, as bad as it was, we knew we had a home where everyone was just like us. When someone called me chornyi, I learned the word for white, biely, and shouted it back.

My cousin G. is speaking of his years as a student, when he left Ethiopia to attend first the Moscow Conservatory of Music, and then what used to be called the Leningrad Cultural Institute, where he would study photography and film. He kept a daily journal, he says, pages piling up as one year bled into the next. He wrote every day in Amharic, before stepping outside to slip into his Russian life.

I ask him about the Moscow metro system, because


struggling with this new country, this new language, this new underground terrain, riding the metro from one stop to the other, one path snaking into the next, sending him in endless, looping circles while he tries, first in Amharic, then in his broken Russian, to make himself understood without inviting hostility and fear, without inviting ridicule and racism.

It starts to make sense that he switched out of the music conservatory to study photography and film: It was one way to feel like he belonged, to communicate with a degree of fluency in at least one kind of language, a visual language. He was afraid to speak English, he tells me, and until his Russian improved, he was reduced to using gestures. An image comes to mind: a blackman in the Moscow metro pantomiming and gesticulating, movements growing larger and more exaggerated as one hour blends into the next and he finds himself again at the wrong station.

G. is a gentle man, with a sharp intelligence and soft eyes. He is the chronicler of our family history; he was writing long before I was. I do not want to imagine him lost. I do not want to think of what kinds of responses he might have gotten that kept him in the underground, wandering, for so long. It is better to think of him in Leningrad, carrying his Kiev camera around his neck, focusing his lens, capturing a moment, fully in control.

Things got much worse during the transition, G. continues. He is talking about the days


life was unraveling. Difficult to fathom where he could find refuge when nothing seemed to be standing still. I see this: G. in the Moscow metro system, disoriented and lost, descending deeper into a bottomless city as seismic shifts rumbled above. It plays out in my mind like a clip from an old black-and-white film, cinematic and nightmarish, a tense scene unspooling against a roiling political backdrop. It feels unreal and surreal, vivid and also lonely. But when I look again, I see my cousin maneuvering his way out, climbing from darkness to light, breathing the fresh air of the city, then when the turmoil escalates, escaping out of it altogether. Safe.

What could it mean to be Russian and black, with nowhere to go? Hamid Ismailov sets hisheartbreaking The Underground in this reality. The narrator, Kirill, nicknamed Mbobo, also sometimes called Pushkin, tells us of his life in a voice speaking from the dead: “I am Moscow’s underground son,” he says, “the result of one too many nights on the town.” He is the offspring of an African athlete and a young Siberian woman, conceived during the 1980 Moscow Olympics and born nine months later. His father returned home; his mother (nicknamed “Moscow”) died when he was eight. With brutal frankness, he tells us that he, too, died four years later, at the age of 12. “That is all there is to my Moscow life. The rest is just decaying, late-blown blooms of memories.”

His dead voice leads us through the novel, each chapter bearing the


testament to an artistic vision that should not have succeeded.

The beauty of these Stalin-era stations lures young Mbobo to the underground. Aboveground, he is the target of racist cruelties, both passive and aggressive; below, he imagines that he can ease into the dark pockets of the subway system and blend in. He stands, impressed, before the mosaics and statues, and lingers in the golden light of intricate lamps. It is magnificent enough for him to believe in the impossible, to believe that in the darkness of the underground he can leave himself and his black body behind. That in the metro, he can simply exist: neither Mbobo nor monkey, neither Pushkin nor fatherless. Just a boy sliding through a space that carries no judgment with it.

It is whatan unbalanced soul.” I’m reminded of something else G. said. The Russians were readers, and they had a deep and profound connection to literature that he admired. Even his residence in Leningrad, he points out, was across the street from a metro station, Chernaya Rechka, named in honor of the place where Pushkin fought his last duel. The Underground, too, is steeped in Russian, and Soviet, literary tradition. The structure of the novel echoes Yerofeev’s Moscow to the End of the Line, and Ismailov seems almost gleeful with his many sly literary allusions, from Abkahazia’s Fazil Iskander to Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin. “Fathers and sons…” Mbobo says, referencing Turgenev’s novel, Fathers and Sons, “but for me it was Fatherlessness and Orphanhood.”

At the planning stages of the Moscow metro


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New York Mets' David Wright dives for a ball hit by Washington Nationals' Josh Willingham in the second inning during a Major League Baseball game, Saturday, April 25, 2009, at Citi Field in New York. Wright threw to first for the out. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Washington Nationals pitcher Daniel Cabrera adjusts his cap after giving up a base hit to New York Mets' Carlos Beltran which allowed Luis Castillo to score in the second inning during a Major League Baseball game Saturday, April 25, 2009 at Citi Field in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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NEW YORK, April 25 -- When the Washington Nationals attempted to play baseball for the 16th time this season, they refuted the notion that practice makes perfect. Perhaps the Nationalsavoided the sloppiest game in recent team history, but as a consolation prize, they played the sloppiest first three innings. Their starting pitcher couldn't throw strikes. The first baseman threw wide to third. Their right fielder threw low to a cut-off man. Their center fielder, sunglasses propped atop his hat brim, made an error when he lost a ball in the sun.

The complete regression of fundamental baseball culminated in Washington's 8-2 loss against the Mets on Saturday at Citi Field. Relying on all the usual deficiencies -- defensive gaffes, unearned runs -- the Nationals dropped to 3-13, the badge of a team that talks a lot about eliminating its problems and gives no sign of actually doing so.

By the end of the first inning, the Nationals had already


turned in their most emblematic miscue of the season. It led directly to three unearned runs, unnerved starter Daniel Cabrera, and placed Washington in a hole from which it couldn't escape. With two on and two out in the bottom of the first, New York's David Wright skied a ball to center fielder Elijah Dukes. In afternoon games like this one, balls traveling to that part of the stadium pass right through the sun's glare. Equipped with shades, Dukes had a solution. Unfortunately, that solution wasn't covering his eyes at the time he needed it.

The ball never even touched his mitt. Dukes tried to camp under it, then watched it plummet about a foot behind him. The error -- Washington's 16th of the season -- continued a longon Saturday, running their season total to 13, most in the National League. Four of Cabrera's five runs were unearned, but that's not to suggest he didn't richly deserve blame for aesthetic transgressions. Especially after the Dukes error, when Cabrera stopped throwing strikes.

Against eight of the first 14 hitters he faced, and against 10 of 19 overall, Cabrera threw at least three balls. He walked four of those hitters. Several other times when behind in the count, Cabrera allowed hard hits when he was forced to bring pitches across the plate. Luis Castillo, who scored New York's run in the second, reached with a single that came on a 3-2 pitch. The Carlos Beltrán single that drove Castillo home came on a 3-1 pitch. Though ensuing wildness that


inning led to no more runs, Cabrera then walked Carlos Delgado on four pitches and worked the count full against Wright. Fittingly, Cabrera's afternoon ended with a walk in the third inning. José Reyes trotted to first, and Acta trotted to the mound.

"He didn't throw enough strikes obviously," Acta said. "With a ballclub like [New York's] that has such a good lineup, speed, if you put guys on, the way we're playing defense, every time a guy commits an error it's really going to cost you."

For the rest of the day, the Nationals failed to dent the deficit. Sinkerballer Mike Pelfrey had his best start of the year, going 5 2/3 , allowing six hits and two runs. The Nationals went quietly against the New York relievers, too,Other than Stan Wawrinka, the only two to have won major titles outside the big four in eons. (Photo of Cilic: Juergen Hasenkopf/REX; DelPotro: David Lobel/INFevents.com)

NEW YORK – How fitting is it that Marin Cilic and Juan Martin del Potro now will be inextricably linked in U.S. Open history?

Worlds apart: Tandil, Argentina and Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (www.distancefromto.net) More

The two longtime friends, so often compared, have much in common.

We'll start with their height: both are listed at 6-foot-6, although their weights are listed on the ATP Tour website at 214 pounds (del Potro) and ... 180 pounds (Cilic). Probably time for an update.

They were both just five days apart, on opposite sides of the world. Del Potro hails from Tandil, Argentina while Cilic was born in Medjugorje, Bosnia – 7,362


miles apart, as the crow flies.

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They played in the final of the 14-and-under division at the Orange Bowl tournament in Miami in December, 2002.

Can you believe it? The two had just turned 14. Cilic was the No. 1 seed; del Potro was No. 12. Cilic clearly already had his growth spurt, while del Potro was still a pipsqueak in comparison. But the pipsqueak won, 6-2, 7-6.

Del Potro had the cleaner, more compact strokes of the two – and was much more demonstrative, especially compared to the stoic player he is today. The funniest part of thisis that the two kids have to share a bench on changeovers – which kind of means pretending that the person who is sitting a foot away from you doesn't exist for 90 seconds at a time. Imagine if the pros had to do that.

On Jan. 2, 2006, Cilic became the No. 1 junior in the world – two weeks after he ended his junior career at the Yucatan Cup in Mexico. Del Potro's junior high was No. 3 on Jan. 17, 2005; he ended his junior career at the French Open five months later. Both turned pro in 2005.

Incredibly, they never met at the ITF junior level (which are 18-and-under events) during the 2 1/2 years they played at that level. And they never once met in


the Futures or Challengers as they made their way up the ladder.

The first time they squared off as pros was at the 2009 Australian Open, where del Potro defeated Cilic in four sets. The second time they met was in the quarter-finals of the 2009 U.S. Open where, again, del Potro won in four sets on his way to his first (and so far, only) Grand Slam title.

The Argentine leads their head-to-head 8-2. They have only played at the biggest tournaments: four times in Grand Slams, once in the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup, and the other five times at the Masters 1000 level. That U.S. Open quarter-final was the latest they've ever met in a tournament, something that's likely to change if del Potro returns to fullor any relative of such director, partner or member

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full of those waiting to speak on the bill, many in opposition to HB 99. They waited in the room for hours; debate on a bail reform constitutional amendment lasted for hours.

Allen Sanchez, the executive director of the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that he wanted to encourage a “compromise” then noted that there was a bill with a Republican and Democratic sponsor in front of them; that was the bill sponsored by Ingle and Smith.

Taxation and Revenue Department Secretary Demesia Padilla said that the administration supported HB 99. She said it “is a very common sense approach to get New Mexico moving forward.”

Padilla was the expert witness for Pacheco’s bill, which was cosponsored by Rep. Andy Nuñez, R-Hatch.

Padilla also spoke out against the amendment, sayingindia

Updated: Jul 17, 2019 00:26 IST

The death toll in floods in North-East, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh rose to 67 on Tuesday from 45 on Monday, even as the India Metrological Department (IMD) has predicted more rains in these regions.

Close to nine million people in the flood affected regions have been affected with nearly 300,000 living in relief camps.

Union water resources minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat who met chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday, announced the release of Rs 251 crore as first installment to the state disaster response fund, the Assam’s disaster management authority said.

“The floods in Assam are a concern for the entire country. I would like to assure that the Centre will extend all help to the state to tackle the situation effectively,” Shekhawat said.

Till Tuesday, 22


people have died in floods, including two in landslides in Guwahati, and five deaths were reported from Barpeta, Dhubri, Morigaon and Nagaon. There are 5.25 million people affected in 30 of the state’s 33 districts. Around with 147,000 displaced persons are taking shelter in 695 relief camps, the state disaster management authority said.

The ongoing floods have taken a toll on the animals residing within the Kaziranga National Park, the biggest habitat of one horned rhinos in the world. Four rhinos and an elephant died in the past 24 hours due to floods, according to divisional forest officer RB Saikia, taking the total animal death toll in the park till Tuesday to 30.

In Bihar where 12 of the state’s 38 districts are facing a deluge, chief minister Nitish Kumar— the city receives 375 mm in a year.

The IMD also issued a red alert (over 240 mm in 24 hours) for Kerala’s six districts, including Idukki, Wayanad, Kannur, Ernakulam and Thrissur, from July 18 onwards. These were some of the most affected districts in the 2018 floods, which were the worst that the state had experienced in a century.

Meanwhile, in Nepal, at least 78 people have died and 40 injured, with around 17,500 displaced due to floods and landslides, authorities said Tuesday.

(With agency inputs)


St. Michael's Orthodox Church in Jermyn kicked off their annual Parish Festival with an early event: a Designer Purse Bingo held on August 26, 2018. The event provided "seed money" for their main event: the annual Christmas in September Parish Festival, to be held September 28, 29, and 30, 2018.necklaced with kerosene-soaked tires and burned to death. Amidst all the corruption and misery, Cole also makes readers understand the narrator's longing for a Nigeria he thinks he remembers from childhood.

Every Day Is For The Thief technically predates Cole's celebrated 2011 debut novel, Open City, and bookends it. Open City followed a Nigerian doctor — a psychiatric resident named Julius — as he worked off stress and stoked his alienation by walking all over the island of Manhattan at night. Open City was a fresh meditation on what E.B. White, another walker in the city, called "the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy. " The narrator of Every Day Is For The Thief isn't given to contemplation like Julius, and he wouldn't dare walk alone through


Lagos at night; but this guy is also very much the outsider, separated from his home city by the many years he's spent living in New York. Maybe that's why the format here of short disconnected chapters doesn't bother me so much: This guy is so overwhelmed by the strangeness of life in his old hometown, he's not capable of piecing together a coherent narrative that makes sense of what he's experiencing. So, instead, we get entries that read like a travel journal. To add to that Lonely Planet Guide effect, Cole includes moody black and white photographs he's actually taken of sites in Lagos: a black goat standing alone in a rubble strewn building lot, a swampy deserted outdoor market, a concrete cityscape as seen from behindthe grimy windshield of a car.

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The prose snapshots of Lagos are just as off-kilter. The minute our narrator lands at the airport, he's accosted by an official who presses him for a bribe: "What have you brought me for Christmas?" this man asks in Yoruba. During his stay, our narrator visits the National Museum, a mildewed place where the few artifacts "are caked in dust and [displayed] under dirty plastic screens." The museum unintentionally testifies to the colonial and post-colonial pillaging of Nigerian art. And in one of the most finely etched vignettes, the narrator visits an Internet café, which, he assures us, is a sign of the newly vital Nigerian economy. But, the Chamber-of-Commerce-type description


Victor Oladipo stands out for Magic in losing cause once more

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- A year ago at this time, Victor Oladipo was playing in games that rarely went longer than 40 minutes.

And he had yet to reach his sixth birthday the last time the Orlando Magic were involved in a contest that required three overtimes.

By both college and NBA rookie standards, you could say Oladipo played a game and a half Wednesday night. The authority with which he drove to the basket in the second and third quarters against the Chicago Bulls, who are ordinarily anything but slouches on defense, was a sight for sore eyes to fans who have seen the Magic struggle for victories.

Unfortunately for Oladipo, he is becoming something of an authority onstanding out in defeat. Despite scoring a total of 26 points in what ordinarily would be the middle two quarters and a career-high 35 points overall, the Magic let a 15-point third-quarter lead slip away and came out on the short end of a 128-125 loss to the Bulls.

"I've never played a game that long," said Oladipo, who came within a minute of tying the single-game franchise record for playing time. "But I'm glad I was in it, and I'm glad I was playing in it. It's all a blessing, a blessing in disguise."

Horace Grant, who will be honored before Friday night's game against the Charlotte Bobcats as part of the Magic's 25th anniversary, played 58 minutes in a triple-overtime loss to the Toronto Raptors in February 1998.


Oladipo finished with 57.

While he ended the game with 15 field goals in 24 attempts, Oladipo was only 1 of 5 after Jameer Nelson's step-back jumper over the considerably taller Joakim Noah forced the first of the three extra five-minute periods.

"We missed a lot of open shots down the stretch," he said.

"Guys played their tails off tonight," said Nelson, whose 31 points were one short of his high in a Magic career that began in 2004. "We shared the ball. We executed well. Obviously we did some things wrong, but our effort outweighed the things that we did wrong."

The most glaring error came in letting Mike Dunleavy get wide open off an inbound play with the Magic nursing a 111-108 lead late in the first overtime. After Dunleavy's3-pointer, one of 12 made by the Bulls after the first quarter, the Magic failed to get off a shot in the final 13.4 seconds, a move for which Nelson took full responsibility.

Compared with their most recent overtime affair two weeks ago, a loss at Cleveland in which they fell apart in the final minute of regulation, the Magic sounded encouraged at the way they executed on offense and defense.

Fittingly, Oladipo's only field goal in overtime was a layup. He was able to use the rim to his advantage in scoring over Bulls forward Taj Gibson to give the Magic a 125-122 lead.

"I thought his attacks to the rim were really good," coach Jacque Vaughn said. "His finishing at the rim was pretty impressive. I thought he had


President Ford's Memorial Program

Take a look at the run-down for President Gerald Ford's funeral at the National Cathedral.

Yesterday's service for President Gerald Ford at the National Cathedral was filled with pomp and circumstance, from the President's Own—the Marine Corps band—to memorials from Tom Brokaw, Henry Kissinger and President Bush.

We've obtained a little piece of history that we wanted to share—a copy of the official program (large PDF), handed out to the some three thousand special guests and VIPs who packed the Cathedral for the morning service.

Browse through the readings, take a look at the music, and look at the responsive prayers. Although the funeral lacked some of pageantry of other Presidents' memorials, it was still a lengthy service for one of the nation's top officials.

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Title: Thoughts on Film: Critically engaging with both Adorno and Benjamin. Author: Dr Laura D'Olimpio, The University of Notre Dame, Australia. Email: laura.dolimpio@nd.edu.au Bio: Dr Laura D'Olimpio is a lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics at The University of Notre Dame Australia. Laura completed her PhD The Moral Possibilities of Mass Art at The University of Western Australia. Laura has published in the area of philosophy and education and assists with the Philosophy and Ethics WACE course. She is Chairperson of the Australasian Association for Philosophy in Schools (WA), Inc. and co-editor of the open-access Journal of Philosophy in Schools (http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/jps/index). Paper: 7 122 words Keywords: Film theory; Aesthetics; philosophy; Adorno; Benjamin; Critical Thinking Abstract: There is a traditional debate in analytic aesthetics that surrounds the classification of filmand distributed story-telling medium. Reading Adorno alongside Benjamin is a way to highlight the role of the critical thinker who receives the film. Arguing that the critical thinker is a valuable citizen, this paper focuses on the value of critical thinking in the reception of cinematic artworks. It achieves this by reconsidering Adorno and Benjamin's theories of mass art. Thoughts on Film: Critically engaging with Adorno and Benjamin. Introduction: Much of the current philosophy of film literature pursues an optimistic approach that may be identified with Walter Benjamin's hope for the art of the masses. This optimism sees film as a vehicle for screening philosophical thought experiments, and offering new perspectives on issues relevant to everyday life by engendering critical consciousness. If films allow for philosophical thinking, then


they encourage social, political and economic critique of social norms. Yet, most popular films that are digested in large quantities are Hollywood or Bollywood blockbuster films that are generally criticized for depicting stereotypes and for eliciting formulaic emotions (Collingwood, 1969, 57). Theorists who conceive of cinema as a means of thinking must firstly reply to the objections that most films are formulaic and do not encourage active, intelligent, or imaginative participation. Prior to the publication of Gilles Deleuze's cinema books, theorists such as T. W. Adorno feared the advent of the Hollywood Studio film as akin to Nazi propaganda. Dismissed as elitist, Adorno's concern was that mass produced and distributed artworks portrayed social norms as immutable reality. If the viewer's imagination cannot enter and engage with messages depictedthrough the filmic medium, then viewers cannot critique the moral and social status quo as screened; instead, they simply receive it, and the depicted stereotypes are reinforced. Audiences may be able to engage critically with such narratives, yet the focus on the reception of the narrative screened is worth considering in further detail. In this paper, Adorno will be read alongside Benjaminesque theories of film, in order to focus on the critical attitude of the viewer, as well as the moral messages of the film. While there are many different stories being told in contemporary culture, the focus on the critical thinker, the interpreter of the narrative, is vital. If critical thinkers are important for society and films as mass art can engender a critical reception then Adorno's


concern for uncritical ingestion of mass art would be valid. Although Adorno may have overstated his concern, his desire for critical reflection of mass art appears to be well placed, and is a sentiment shared by Benjamin. As Miriam Hansen notes: Abandoning his defensive stance against the cinema as a mass media, Adorno can even conceive of a "liberated" film which would have to "extricate its a priori collectivity from the mechanisms of unconscious and irrational influence" and enlist it "in the service of emancipatory intentions." Benjamin would not have disagreed (1981, 192). Film, as a technological art form, can be viewed and understood by many people virtually on first contact (Carroll, 2004, 486-7) and can elicit powerful responses. The nature of these various responses is still underdebate, but includes responding to the emotional quality of films, their images and realistic representations (Wartenberg, 2007, 5) that can depict various aspects of society, character and politics. Following Carroll, I shall use the term 'mass art' to refer to mass produced and distributed artworks such as film. On Carroll's definition (1998,196), film is art qua art, yet it may not be very good (both aesthetically and ethically). Following the influence of Deleuze, much of the current philosophy and film literature is optimistic with regards to the potential of films to explore philosophical ideas. The cinematic experience is powerful because it combines sensory input with story to convey social, political, and emotional truths. Felicity Colman illustrates this in her claim: The audio-visual nature of certain cinema...achieves 'a victory'


Deleuze celebrated, his concerns should not be dismissed. Film, as an art of the masses, embedded within society and used by social, political, moral humans, has the potential to be constructive or destructive. Benjamin acknowledges the potential for mass art to manipulate, yet he contends that mass art is progressive in its ability to transform human perception, not by expressing or emblematizing it, but by encouraging its evolution (Carroll, 1998, 122). For Benjamin, film allows the viewer to stand outside of it, critically. This is due to the 1 Fast & Furious 5 is listed by Screen Australia as one of the Top 50 films in Australia ranked by reported gross earnings. Director Justin Lin is up to #6 (2013) with #7 due for release in 2014. cameraare justly renowned for their twin theses of the transformation of the concept of art by its 'technical reproducibility' and the new possibilities for collective experience this contains, in the wake of the historical decline of the 'aura' of the work of art, a process that film is presented as definitively concluding. While this more traditional art aura regresses, there is also the chance, Benjamin suggests, of a newly liberated 'distracted' viewer who is progressive, keeping up with the new, active filmic techniques (Markus, 2001, 17). Yet, Adorno's concern that the new media will lead to a dystopia or even the collapse of civilization should give us pause to think more deeply about the impact of mass art on viewers. For Adorno, who is concerned with the aesthetic


and political. With the benefit of hindsight, if we acknowledge that Adorno was overly critical of the medium of film and over-stated his ethical and social concerns with regards to the passivity of viewers, some of his critique is still salvageable and relevant to the contemporary debate about film and philosophy. Furthermore, it is important to take the conversation in its context of Hitler taking control of Germany in the 1930s and the Nazi effort to eliminate avant-garde art that challenged the political picture of the Weimar Republic they wished to sustain. Having witnessed the effect of propaganda in Nazi Germany and moving to America to form the Frankfurt School, Adorno and Horkheimer bore witness to the rise of the Hollywood Studio Film system in PostWWII America. Writingperceived more clearly" (2007, 5) and, "films can make arguments, provide counterexamples to philosophical claims, and put forward novel philosophical theories" (2007, 9). If films allow for philosophical thinking, then they are like some other so-called 'high' artworks in that they encourage social, political and economic critique of social norms. If contemporary films depict diverse narratives instead of constructing a homogenous picture of social reality, then audiences are encouraged to think critically by imaginatively engaging with multiple perspectives, thereby alleviating Adorno's fear of passivity. Yet, Adorno's (albeit overstated) concerns are still worthy of discussion. Many if not most popular films that are digested in large quantities promote stereotypes with dubious moral values. Wartenberg is correct to claim that some films are philosophical, yet he gives examples of Hollywood


concern was that mass produced and distributed artworks portrayed social mores as immutable reality. If the viewer's imagination cannot critically engage with film, i.e. through montage or similar 'shock' techniques, then viewers cannot critique the moral and social status quo screened; instead, they simply receive it, and it is reinforced. Concerned that technology within a capitalist framework allows for mass produced and distributed artworks to be formulaically churned out, creating a culture industry, Adorno claims in 'Culture Industry Revisited': although the culture industry undeniably speculates on the conscious and unconscious states of the millions towards which it is directed, the masses are not primary, but secondary, they are an object of calculation; an appendage to the machinery. The customer is not king, as the culture industry would haveus believe, not its subject but its object (13). Adorno's hostility towards the culture industry is evident but times have changed and, as Thomas Wartenberg notes in the preface to his Thinking On Screen: Film as Philosophy: I am struck by a sense of arrival...for the field of film and philosophy. When I began to argue that films could be relevant to philosophical concerns, that claim was met with a rather stony silence in the world of Anglo-American philosophy. Yet, amongst this relatively new-found enthusiasm for film by analytic philosophers, it must be acknowledged that much of mass produced and distributed art is primarily aimed at commercial success as opposed to encouraging critical spectatorship. Often appearing to promote equality and challenging the existing social, class and racial discriminations,


culture industry allows for diverse narratives and values, the more creative it is. This in turn allows for critical spectatorship. Throughout his writings it is evident that Adorno's thought evolves as reflected in his conversations and letters to Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer. In 'The Culture Industry Revisited', Adorno slightly modifies his initial claim that audiences are completely passive, asserting that audiences do mistrust authority which allows them to distinguish between art (or mass art) and reality. Several years later when interviewed on the radio, Adorno seemed surprised that the masses were able to, "critically assess the political and social implications of the event" (Hansen, 1981-2, 60), in this case the wedding of Dutch Princess Beatrix to a German diplomat. He was forced to conclude that complete manipulationof the masses by those in power via the culture industry is not possible. Similarly, he acknowledged that the consciousness of the masses is (or could be) varied, multiple and dynamic. This theoretical progress Adorno makes reflects the changes in mass art at the time he is writing, from the monopoly of the Hollywood Studio system in the 30s and 40s to the increased diversification in the industry. From my perspective, this progress also increases the plausibility of Adorno's ethical, political and economic concerns with regard to mass art. Although Adorno's conclusions are overstated and draw from a specific cultural context, his ethical concerns should not be so quickly dismissed. While it may not be the case that monopolising capitalist and consumerist forces will eventually ensure that we


means of mastering the elemental forces of a technological second nature. Photography and film accustom humanity to the new apperceptions conditioned by technology. Technological art – like film and photography – becomes the site of exploration of future relations between technology and the human (60). Certainly this has been proven as technology continues to advance and our use of it builds upon existing modes of self-expression. Benjamin and Adorno agreed that, in comparison to Art proper, the technological reproduction of mass art strips the artwork of its 'aura' or unique artistic quality. Adorno argues that loss of the aura of a work of art results in the simultaneous erosion of the artwork's aesthetic value. Yet this is not the case for Benjamin. As Osborne articulates, for Benjamin, "contrary___, Transparencies on Film (1981-1982) trans. Thomas Y. Levin. New German Critique, Special Double Issue on New German Cinema(24/25): 199-205. Benjamin, Walter (1991–1999) Selected Writings. ed. Howard Eiland & Michael W. Jennings. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ___, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1969) trans H. Zorn. In Illuminations. ed. H. Arendt. New York: Schocken Books: 217-52. ___, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility (1936) trans E. Jephcott. In Selected Writings Volume 3 1935-1938 ed. H. Eiland. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. Brummett, Barry (2013) What Popular Films Teach Us about Values: Locked inside with the Rage Virus. Journal of Popular Film and Television(41:2): 61-67. Bloch, E. et al., (1977) Aesthetics and Politics. trans. R


Taylor. Radical Thinkers Series. London: Verso. Carroll, Noel (1998) A Philosophy of Mass Art. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Collingwood, R. G (1969) The Principles of Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Colman, Felicity (2011) Deleuze & Cinema: The Film Concepts. Oxford: Berg Publishers. Cox, D & Levine, M. P. (2012) Thinking Through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Deleuze, Gilles (1986) Cinema I: The Movement-Image. trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ___, (1989) Cinema II: The Time-Image. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Hansen, Miriam (1981-2) Introduction to Adorno, 'Transparencies on Film' (1966). New German Critique, Special Double Issue on New German Cinema(24/25): 186198. Levine, Michael (2001) Depraved Spectators & Impossible Audiences: Horror and other pleasures of the cinema. Film and Philosophy, Special Edition onHorror: 6371. ___, (2001) A Fun Night Out: Horror and Other Pleasures of the Cinema. Senses of Cinema(17): http://www.sensesofcinema.com Markus, Gyorgy (2001) Walter Benjamin or: The Commodity as Phantasmagoria. New German Critique(83): 3-42. McCann, Paul (2008) Race, Music, and National Identity: Images of Jazz in American Fiction, 1920-1960. Delaware: Associated University Press. Osborne, Thomas (2008) The Structure of Modern Cultural Theory. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Osborne, Peter and Charles, Matthew (2011) Walter Benjamin. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ed. Edward N. Zalta: http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2011/entries/benjamin/ Wartenberg, Thomas E (2007) Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy. London: Routledge. ___, (2006) Beyond Mere Illustration: How Films Can Be Philosophy. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism(64:1): 19-32. Film Bibliography: Armageddon (1998) Dir. Michael Bay. Fast & Furious 5 (2012) Dir. Justin Lin.


the matching of output stage to antenna I think. It was certainly quite reassuring to see direct evidence of current in the antenna circuit anyway.
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Mainstream hams first started to appreciate SWR in the 1940's. In that era some of the first SWR meters started to come on the market. But their accuracy and frequency range was quite limited. Toward the end of the 1940's military surplus coaxial cable was hitting the ham market. Up to that point, ladder line was typically used for most ham antenna installations.
In October of 1947, Charles Wright, W4HVV wrote an article in QST bemoaning the accuracy and availabilty of SWR meters for "28 mc" and higher. His article, entitled The Poor Man's Standing-Wave Indicator, described a simple twin lamp (2 volt, 60 mACiliary neurotrophic factor immunoreactivity in rat intramuscular nerve during reinnervation through a silicone tube after severing of the rat sciatic nerve.
The immunoreactivity of ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) and S100 was studied in the degenerating and regenerating intramuscular nerves after the sciatic nerve was severed. The sciatic nerves of male Wistar rats were transected at the midpoint of the thigh, and silicone tubing was used to obtain effective reinnervation. The strong immunoreactivity of CNTF and S100 was observed in the Schwann cell cytoplasm of intramuscular nerves (IMN) and at the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) on the control sections. The CNTF immunoreactivity gradually became weak and indistinct in the Schwann cell cytoplasm after the operation. However, it was recognized again in the IMN at 4 weeks after the operation. On the


President Donald Trump won't be moving forward with his nomination of Brett Talley, the controversial candidate for a federal judgeship in Alabama who as a hobby wrote blogs and participated in ghost hunts, an administration official told NPR on Wednesday.

Buzzfeed reported on Tuesday that Brett Talley had offered to withdraw from consideration for the U.S. District Court judgeship in the middle district of Alabama.

And also this week Republican Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee had asked Trump to rethink his nomination of Talley and one other man to a Texas judgeship, CNN reported.

Talley's nomination to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama - a lifetime appointment if he gets confirmed - had already gone through the Judiciary Committee and he iswaiting on a vote from the full Senate.

Controversy around Talley since he was approved by the Judiciary Committee last month. An online comment he wrote in 2011 surfaced defending the early KKK. He also didn't disclose his wife's top White House job as a potential conflict of interest on his Senate questionnaire.

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) Policy Director Todd A. Cox was pleased with Grassley's decision.

"We've spent months raising alarms about Trump's unqualified and inexperienced choices for the federal bench, including Brett Talley," Cox stated. "Talley was not only found unanimously not qualified by the nonpartisan ABA, but he also failed to disclose his marriage to the White House Counsel's chief of staff, as well as thousands of online posts he authored, including one defending


the 'first KKK.'"

Talley has an eclectic resume that includes Harvard, horror writing and hunting ghosts, but his lack of trial experience has drawn disapproval from an influential legal organization.

The American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary last week unanimously rated Talley unqualified to serve as a federal district court judge. The group has only rated a handful of judicial picks unqualified since the 1990s. Talley was admitted to the Alabama Bar in 2007, but has only practiced for three years, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The 36-year-old attorney grew up in Jasper and attended the University of Alabama and Harvard Law School. He was appointed as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this year. For almost two years before that,he worked as deputy solicitor general in the Alabama Office of the Attorney General under former Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange.

Talley has published widely, and not just in law journals. He is an award-nominated horror writer who has also published blog posts in support of gun rights. He has also written guest posts for Al.com, including a column in support of his former boss's campaign for U.S. Senate.

Talley's questionnaire also included some information about his hobbies - including fiction writing and ghost hunting. In a question about memberships to civic and professional organizations, Talley listed the Tuscaloosa Paranormal Research Group, which he belonged to from 2009 to 2010. He has co-written books about haunted sites in Tuscaloosa and the Black Belt.


Visit this page for links to all the exhibits released in the McDonnell corruption trial.Full Story

Visit this page for links to all the exhibits released in the McDonnell corruption trial.Full Story

The defense has rested in the corruption trial of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife. Former first lady Maureen McDonnell's attorneys finally had their turn to present their side of the story Wednesday.

Bob and Maureen McDonnell are charged in a 14-count indictment with accepting more than $165,000 in gifts and loans from former Star Scientific Inc. CEO Jonnie Williams in exchange for promoting his company's product. Emotions hit a high point Wednesday when the couple's eldest daughter had some tough words for Williams.

The first witness called was a personal friend of Maureen McDonnell, April Niamtu. Shetestified that she met Maureen in 2009. She answered questions relating to their friendship and Maureen's interest in nutraceuticals. She also said Maureen and Williams seemed like "best buddies" and acted as if they'd known each other a long time.

Niamtu testified about flying with Maureen in 2011 to a Nu Skin conference. She said Jonnie Williams flew them out there and took them to another meeting first, asking the first lady to speak in front of what appeared to be a couple hundred people. She said she had expected about a dozen people. During that trip, she said they were unexpectedly surprised by spa treatments, dinners and more.

The next witness called to the stand was the McDonnells' oldest daughter, Jeanine McDonnell Zubowsky. She testified about the complicated relationship


between her parents, saying her mother was frustrated and grew more lonely as her father's political career grew.

She testified that her parents "put on an act in public" while their problems increased behind closed doors. She says her mother would drink and take long baths while the governor was away. She told the jury that her father, at his wit's end after one fight, told her “I don't know what to do anymore. I wish I could make her happy."

Zubowsky testified her mother had a "mild obsession" with Jonnie Williams, and he was always at the top of the list for wedding discussions. When asked about the $10,000 wedding gift from Williams, Jeanine said it was returned when "we realized he was a criminal."

Maureen McDonnell has shown littlegovernment's student services and amenities fee, as well as fore-shadowing the idea of re-introducing caps on university places. The $273 annual student services fee was reintroduced by the Gillard government in 2011, after the Howard government abolished compulsory student fees in 2005. In an interview with Fairfax Media which was splashed on the Herald's front page on Wednesday, Pyne said the fee was ''compulsory student unionism by the back door'' and that the Coalition would abolish it. In another interview with The Australian Financial Review, he was asked when the fee might be abolished and he said: ''It might be in the budget, but that's not until May.'' But Pyne either went too far, or said too much.

This was not part of the script - Abbott had previously


promised the university sector a period of stability after the budget cuts the Gillard government made in the May budget. In a pre-election press release Pyne himself promised the Coalition had ''no plans'' to reintroduce caps to university places and that "reports that this is being considered are wrong''. On Wednesday morning, after the Herald's splash, Pyne's reversal was swift. That morning, though he was scheduled to appear on ABC Radio's flagship AM program, the ''Mouth from the South'' went missing. He resurfaced on local radio - on ABC Adelaide, where he backtracked, saying the abolition of the student service fee was not a priority. That same day a leaked email from the Prime Minister's media adviser informed ministerial staff that all requests for media interviews, right downto local ABC outlets, were to be vetted through the Prime Minister's office first (Abbott may have promised ''grown-up government'' but ministers will apparently need permission from the headmaster's office before they speak). On Thursday the Prime Minister emerged from several days' silence to give a press conference in which he used identical language to slap down the idea. The student fees abolition was ''not a priority'', he said. There were ''no plans for change in this area at this time''. Messages were mixed, at the very least. Was Pyne freelancing or was he speaking confident in the knowledge that his views on student unionism align with his leader's, only to have the leader rein him in?

Abbott and Pyne are personally close and Pyne is at the ''heart


of the Coalition's senior leadership group'', to quote the leader. Despite Abbott's embrace of student politics when he attended Sydney University in the 1970s, he was always firmly against compulsory student unionism, although it should be noted he and Pyne both attended university when it was free - in the window between Gough Whitlam abolishing fees in 1974 and Bob Hawke's introduction of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme in 1989. Abbott's time in student politics is well documented. It was a period during which the rank stupidity of the left was matched only by the blunt aggression of the right. He was at Sydney University not long after the upheaval of the Whitlam years and the Vietnam protests, during which conscripts took refuge on campus and federal policeThe Reel Deel of films today.

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Creating a horror these days is tough thing to do due to audiences becoming desensitised by violence after seeing it several times over. Being a master of this genre is equally tricky as it takes risks, originality and wit, all the key tools which Jordan Peele possesses. Better known as one half of comedy duo Key & Peele, he seems an unlikely candidate to create what is one of the most original horror movies of all time. Peele has been praised several times for his intensely terrifying film, Get Out, his directorial debut which he also wrote.

Daniel Kaluuya stars as Chris Washington, a successful photographer who is African-American and has been seeing a Caucasian girl for five months called Rose


She was well received in a film which isn’t really something for mainstream audiences, yet she made it work. The fact that she co-wrote the film is equally impressive. Well, it seems she has a taste for blood as she stars in her directorial debut, Prevenge which sees a soon-to-be mother exact revenge on several individuals who have done her wrong. Her experience as a writer on Sightseers shines through in a dynamic and original way, coming up with more and more shocking ways to kill her victims.

She stars as Ruth who goes on a murderous rampage during the final weeks of her pregnancy. Her victims are completely clueless until their final moments; she’s charming, sweet, horny, polite and psychotic. All the while, being told to do awayof his way to make others laugh. He’s such a great character which is why it was actually a shame that he had to die. Of course he had to die, being one of the orchestrators of the events the occurred in Woodsboro. His death happens when Sidney knocks him on the floor, smashes a vase on the back of his head, he’s almost out cold when she pushes the TV on his head, electrocuting him to death. With smoke coming out of the back of the TV, Stu lies there, with his time in this franchise coming to a shocking end. Superb.

There are a couple of things I want to note about this film, namely the references to other movies and one particular (almost) mention of a


famous TV character:

Fred the janitor is played by Wes Craven and is the spitting image of Freddy Krueger, minus the blades on his gloves.

Linda Blair, the girl from The Exorcist, plays an obnoxious bitch of a reporter, demanding to get a story out of Sidney.

Henry Winkler, who played the Principal of the school, is most famous for play Arthur “Fonze” Fonzarelli in Happy Days and his first name in Scream? Arthur. Nicely done Wes, very nicely done.

Thank you for the nightmares Wes Craven, you gave us so much to scream about.

I’m really so very sorry Paddington Bear fans, however these are too funny not to share! Someone, at some point, got it into their sick head to create one or two images of Paddington Bear standing in creepycounsel Bert P. Taylor as additional counsel for the defendant, Doris Thrasher, or, alternatively, to allow Littrell in the trial of this case to reveal Taylor's representation of RLI, RLI's identity, and the reason for RLI's involvement in the case. We grant the petition and issue the writ.
Littrell was employed by Edwards Oil Company of Lawrenceburg, Inc. On May 26, 2005, a vehicle being operated by Littrell was involved in a motor-vehicle accident with a vehicle being operated by Matlock, who was a minor at the time of the accident. Subsequently, Littrell sued Thrasher, individually and as the parent and next friend of Gary Marcus Matlock, and RLI, the underinsured-motorist carrier for Edwards Oil.[1]
*1215 On February 12, 2007, RLI gave notice that it was exercising its right to


of this action, RLI was represented by LaBella Alvis of Christian & Small, LLP. However, on April 23, 2009, Bert P. Taylor of Taylor Ritter, P.C., entered an appearance on behalf of RLI as an additional attorney of record. Thereafter, Taylor participated in the depositions of Littrell, Matlock, and Dr. Johnny Stephen Howell, Littrell's treating physician. In addition to participating in discovery, Taylor also enlisted expert witnesses on behalf of RLI.
On June 21, 2010, Taylor entered an appearance as cocounsel of record on behalf of the defendant Thrasher. Thrasher was already being represented by counsel apparently provided by her liability insurer State Farm. On June 23, 2010, Littrell objected to Taylor's notice of appearance as cocounsel of record for Thrasher, arguing that Taylor, as counsel of record forjury from learning of the existence of insurance coverage and yet, at the same time, wanted to participate in discovery and at trial through its attorney Taylor. Littrell states that by substituting Thrasher as his client, Taylor is attempting to participate in the litigation of this matter on behalf of RLI without allowing Littrell the opportunity to reveal the identity of RLI and the reason for its being involved in the case. Thrasher relies upon the decisions in Driver v. National Security Fire & Casualty Co., 658 So.2d 390 (Ala.1995), and Ex parte State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., 674 So.2d 75 (Ala.1995), in support of her position that Taylor may serve as an additional counsel of record for her.
The plaintiff in Driver was a passenger in a


vehicle that was involved in a collision with another vehicle being operated by the defendant, an uninsured motorist. The defendant died of injuries sustained in the accident. The plaintiff was insured by a liability-insurance policy issued by National Security Fire & Casualty Company ("National Security"), which contained an uninsured-motorist provision inuring to the benefit of the plaintiff. The plaintiff sued the uninsured defendant and included a claim against National Security seeking uninsured-motorist benefits under the policy. After the action was filed, the probate court appointed an attorney as the administrator ad litem for the defendant's estate. The same attorney who was appointed administrator ad litem also represented the defendant's estate in the pending litigation. Thereafter, National Security opted out of the trial of the case, pursuant to theprocedure established in Lowe. On the eve of trial, the attorney for the defendant's estate requested that National Security's former counsel enter an appearance for the defendant's estate and assist in the trial. Over objection by the plaintiff, National *1218 Security's former counsel entered an appearance for the defendant's estate as cocounsel. The jury ultimately rendered a verdict in favor of the defendant's estate, and the trial court entered a judgment on that verdict.
The plaintiff argued on appeal that the trial court committed reversible error in allowing National Security's former counsel to act as cocounsel for the defendant's estate at trial. In affirming the judgment, this Court stated:
"National Security opted out under Lowe, to prevent the jury's knowing that insurance was involved in the case. In order to